Remember as you cope that the 2 pieces of crown are meeting at a
steep angle, not in the flat like baseboard. I suspect you are
not keeping this thought in mind as you cope the piece. To get
the feeling, hold a piece at about the install angle as you cope.
This will be very awkward, but it may give you the idea.

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Hello,

I have a cope joint to make in some 2.5 inch mape crown
moulding.
I just need a quick sanity to check to make sure I'm doing this
right
because my first couple of test pieces just weren't making it.

First I put an inside miter on the crown. I do this by laying
the crown
upside down against the table and fence of my miter saw and
mitering it at
45 deg. This worked fine for the outside corners so I'm
assuming it should
work to get an accurately cut inside miter. If it doesn't then
I must be
really missing something....

Then I mark the curved end with a pencil.

Then, as one previous poster suggested, I back cut it wayyyyy
past where I
think it needs to be back cut to, and then back cut it a little
more
following the pencil line on the face of the cut.

When I put the coped end up against a butt end at the spring
angles they
don't even seem to want to meet. They are kinda sorta getting
there but
they aren't close enough to where you could start cleaning them
up with a
rasp.

Am I missing something fundamental here?

My cut along the face was pretty accurate, not perfect, this
stuff is really
hard to cut, but pretty close to the line. Maybe not back
cutting enough?

thanks
ml