That day I had to rip out a whole kitchen worth of crown molding because the miter saw was off by 2 degrees

Spent 8 hours on a Tuesday cutting and installing crown molding for a client's kitchen remodel. Turned out my miter saw had drifted from a loose screw, and every corner piece had a 2 degree gap. Had to pull all 40 feet of it down and start fresh the next day. Anyone else ever trust a tool too long without checking the calibration?

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lauras8312d ago

wait wait wait... you're telling me you ripped out 40 feet of crown molding because the saw was off by TWO degrees? man, that's brutal. I would've been checking that thing every single cut after the first corner didn't line up. did you not notice the gap getting bigger as you went along or were you just hoping it'd magically sort itself out by the end? that's the kind of day that makes you wanna throw the whole saw in the trash and take up a new hobby.

annas8712d ago

Put myself in your shoes for a second and think about what really went wrong here. I bet it wasn't the saw being off by two degrees that was the real problem. It was probably your reference points. Crown molding sits at a 45 degree angle to the wall, so if your saw blade is off by two degrees and your bevel is off by two degrees, those errors stack up and multiply each time. You'd end up with a gap that looks like it was cut by a drunk squirrel by the time you hit the fourth corner. That twelve foot piece you ripped out probably had like six different errors compounding on each other from the first cut. Honestly, I've done the same thing and it's not really about not noticing, it's about your brain refusing to accept that the numbers don't work.