Hi Edward, The cut that you described is a coped cut. It is made with a relative inexpensive coping saw. If you look at one of the mitered pieces that you removed you can feel a line that represents the pattern of the board. When I had some molding to cope I made the cut with my miter saw to reveal the pattern and left my son-in-law cut it for me. The biggest advantage is that if the room corner is not perfect the 45ยบ will not match properly. the cope joint will. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Przybylek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BlindHandyMan" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:53 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Kitchen Baseboard
Hi all, This week we're having a new kitchen floor installed. It's a vynel floor that looks like hardwood. Unlike standard vynel flooring, it comes in planks just like hardwood and not in rolls, which is what I'm used to. The baseboard is beginning to look a little ratty so I've decided to replace it. Mind you, this is the first time in my life doing anything with baseboard. While taking down the old baseboard, I noticed that in some corners two pieces of baseboard butt up against each other with 45 degree angles cut into each piece to make the 90 degree corner. In other places, one of the pieces has simply been cut to length and nailed into place. The piece that butts up against it, however, has had a fairly intricate curved cut made on it so that it butts up against the first piece much the way two puzzle pieces would come together. The first type of joint shouldn't present much of a problem --- some careful measuring and the correct angle on the radial arm saw. The second affair is well beyond my woodworking talents. Are there tools that would make such a fancy cut in one fell swoop or, at least, in a few very simple steps? Is there any compelling reason why I shouldn't just use the simple 45 degree cuts at every corner? Any help on this task or on the overall job is greatly appreciated. Take care, Ed Przybylek [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links __________ NOD32 3460 (20080922) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
