welll my first attempt at making crown molding didnt go as well as expected.
After spending a long time making sure I understood the speed of the router to properly get a decent cut, (not worried about the profile so much yet, since its only practice molding), I forgot to lock the router in place and was wondering and to be honest, a bit frightened how much the bit shook. I didnt want to be using a large bit that didnt seem stable.
After I got a rough first pass, something clicked in my brain damaged head and I realized I didnt clamp the router secure.
Its going to take 3 very light passes at around 15000 rpms to get a decent cut.
I made another error when I passed it over the 45 degree chamfer bit, seems I forgot to chamfer the back on the top, so it looks a bit off, but its only practice.
Ive had zero sucess in the few times in my life I tried to put up crown molding. After wasting 5 feet or so of the mdf crown I put up in my house couple of years back, I purchased the corner blocks to make my life easy.
I promised to just avoid crown as long as I can, but now I have to learn how to hang it.
Maybe simple simon stuff for some, but up until today, I just had a block.
I cut any profile, just to get a feel of it, then made a corner so I could practice to put up two pieces to make sure Im cutting it right. Im happy it came out fine. I ran a piece of 120 grit paper over the edge, but wont be doing that once I install the pieces I cut for the kitchen.
This is my nightmare, and the reason Im making my own crown, so after I waste some pieces I wont kick myself for spending 5 bucks a linear foot for cherry molding.
My contractor neighbor,(retired now), gave me the rockler crown molding jig a while back.
He told me hed come over any day and teach me how to cut it, but I figured it out with the jig, and kinda like using the jig instead of just placing it against the miter fence simply because I can lock the piece in with the jig and hold it down better.(so I used the jig, besides, it has the proper blade and piece placement written on it so an idiot like me doesnt cut it incorrectly)
the profile I cut isnt the one Ill be using, just showing what the profile bit can do, I need to move it up a bit, and not chamfer the front face.
I dont own a 52/38 chamfer bit, so Im using my 45 degree one.
I have to cut a better block to pin the molding on. I just took a piece of ply for a nailing block for the practice run.
I have more molding, so Ill keep practicing.
Im hoping to get the big cabinet installed sunday, along with some faceframes and a few more doors.