I finally got the miter on that custom crown molding to match up after 4 hours of fiddling with my compound saw's bevel settings.

Has anyone else had a piece that just fought you on every single cut?

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Four hours on a miter sounds about right for my last crown job. I swear I cut the same piece six times and it was still off by a hair. That's when you start questioning the squareness of the whole dang room. I'm with the_leo on this one, sometimes you just gotta laugh before you throw the molding out the window. My own garage trim project turned into a two day fight with a saw that suddenly forgot all its angles.

the_leo6d ago

It's just molding, lol.

the_riley6d ago

Just molding" is how people end up with a bigger, more expensive problem. That black or green stuff you see is only the surface part, the roots are in the material. If you don't kill it at the source with the right cleaner, it comes back twice as bad. Ignoring it never works out.

finley_smith5d ago

Nah, that's how you get a real mess on your hands. I've seen that "just molding" turn a small bathroom corner into replacing a whole section of drywall. The visible part is like the weed above ground, but the roots are in the wall. If you just wipe the surface, it's back in a week and worse. You gotta kill the roots with the right stuff or it never really goes away.