I am 97% finished with the kitchen I have been working on, and
remembered a question I wanted to ask here.

Seems everyone wants crown molding somewhere in their homes. In
kitchen I am wrapping up I used it over the cab uppers to give the
cabinets a bit more dimension. It was painted (along with the
valance) the same color as the cabinets to fool the eye by adding a
longer dimension since the cabinets weren't replaced.

A couple of folks liked the idea, and we are now flirting with me
coming to their houses after the holidays to do something similar.

When I was putting up the pre-primed crown, there were paint drips on
the edges (not face) of the crown making it unstable in the miter
box. All the trim was that way, and unless I stood and scraped two
feet on each side of a joint, it screwed up my fit. I can't leave
this for the guys applying the finish; that's me.

This is the third time lately I have bought preprimed product that had
large drops of primer on edges. A review of the product down at the
big boxes showed all theirs to be the same, and apparently our local
hardwood supplier (that charges 30% more than the boxes) sells what
looks to be the same crap.

It takes too much time to stand and scrape the primer around the soon
to be joints. Some of the primer is really soft, but some is really
hard.
All of it is a pain in the ass to remove and a waste of time.

Trying to get around this problem, I was wondering if anyone has used
the crown stops (DW7084)? I don't need a cutting guide, a miter stop,
a gauge, etc., and don't want anything that will clamp inside the bed
on the saw to take away from its capacity.

I know I could get around this by cutting the moldings flat, but it
takes me too long to do it. Nesting makes cutting crown like cutting
base molding, and flat cutting makes it too hard for me to see my
pencil marks to cut off a degree or two.

And unless it is simply too wide to cut nested, I always cut crown
nested. And my thumb has been my clamp for 25 years of crown molding,
but that also means I can feel the movement (not to mention see the
results) of the material moving on the primer drops.

Worse, the primer drops keep the molding from nesting at the proper
install angle to be cut. Amazing what one drop or heavy primer can do
to your joints. Even more amazing how ****ed off it will make you
when you have to allow extra time for its effects.

So will crown stops for the miter box do the trick on primed molding?
At $22, they would easily pay for themselves on one job.

Thoughts? Experiences? Anyone got a better idea?

Robert