I need advise on cutting crown moulding?
I’m not using it to crown the room, instead i want to use it to create a frame around a large bathroom vanity mirror.
I assume that 45′ angle cuts on my miter saw would create the angle if it were to lay perfectly flat, but I want the inside rectangle of the frame to be flat against a support; while the outside rectangle would be slightly angled up (i don’t know, forming maybe a 15-20′ angle relative to the wall/mirror).
this is all new to me, so please excuse my ignorance – i believe that would be four ‘inside’ angles?
What would i set my miter and bevel at to achieve this effect?
How do I position the wood on the saw when I cut it?
Any assistance you could offer would be very needed and very appreciated.
You are just picture framing the mirror. Similar to a casing on a window. This is even easier than crown at the ceiling. Cut a scrap piece 3-4″ long. Use that to determine the distance relative to the mirror the outside edge of the crown will be. Say the outside edge of the crown is two inches from the mirror. You don’t need to cut upside and backwards, which is the right way for the ceiling, but just like if it was casing. Measure the two inches (just my example, could be 1-1/2, could be 2-1/2″ whatever looks right to you) up the fence from the base of the saw and make a little pencil mark. You may want to use a scrap piece of trim along the base to hold the crown in place, so the crown doesn’t want to move as you cut it. Nest the crown in the saw like the base was the mirror and the fence was the outside edge of the crown. Cut at a 45 miter and leave the bevel straight up. It’s that simple. Think of it this way, if the back of the crown was filled in, and the profile was a triangle with some coves and curves along the hypotenuse, you would cut it with the hypotenuse facing you and miter the ends at a 45. You may want to use a rasp to angle the back edge of the cut. You will get a tighter fit along the profile.
If you want, you could even cope it using the same saw set up. But it is more like casing a window than running crown around a ceiling, and the mirror is a flat surface, so just mitering the corners will work fine.
Hope that makes sense.
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