Introduction Trim reveals every mistake. A baseboard, picture frame, or small molding can look perfect along its whole length and still fail at the corner, where two cuts meet and a gap of even half a degree shows as a dark, obvious line. A traditional miter box solves this, but many are too wide for … Read more
Introduction Real houses are full of angles that are almost — but not quite — what they should be. The corner that should be 90 degrees is 88. The stair stringer that should match the standard pitch does not. Measure with a protractor, do the arithmetic, set your saw by numbers, and the trim still … Read more
Introduction Crown molding has ended more confident DIY weekends than almost any other trim. The molding does not sit flat on the saw, it does not sit square against the fence, and the angles it needs are compound — a miter and a bevel at once — so the standard advice involves charts, upside-down-and-backwards positioning … Read more