Painted myself into a corner trimming baseboards with a miter saw

All those videos said compound miter cuts would take 10 minutes but it took me three hours and a trip to the hardware store for a coping saw to get my inside corners to actually fit tight, anyone else find coping way easier than trying to match angles perfect?

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gray_morgan2d agoMost Upvoted

Just me or did those videos forget to mention that your walls are never actually square? I spent a full day swearing at my Craftsman before giving up and grabbing a coping saw. Coping takes ten minutes per corner and doesn't leave you staring at a 1/8 inch gap like some kind of failure.

the_rowan2d ago

oh absolutely, the coping saw is the real hero of any baseboard job. @gray_morgan that's the thing nobody tells you about those fancy miter saw setups - they work great if you live in a perfect world where corners are actually 90 degrees, but none of us do. i have a question though - when you coped that corner, did you find yourself having to adjust the angle a bit as you went along, or were you able to just cut it and pop it in? because i swear every time i try coping, i end up having to shave off little bits here and there anyway, which kind of defeats the purpose of calling it a "ten minute" job. it's still faster than fighting with a miter cut that's never going to close up, but i'm curious if that's just me being bad at it or if that's normal.

sagecooper2d ago

Yeah @the_rowan, coping always needs little tweaks for me too, just like every "simple" DIY job hides a bigger mess.