Coping Quarter Round Help Please

Did you intend to post a photo? It’s hard to answer without it.

Hi Bobby

I think you need at least 5 posts before you can add a pic, so you probably need to describe it more or make more posts.

Inside joint should look like this.

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I think I figured it out after many trials and changing the angle I was coping the trim at. Attached is a picture of what I kept getting where the joint was not going all the way back. I realized that when I got towards the bottom of the trim piece when I was coping it, I wasn’t back cutting it enough at the bottom, my cut was getting almost vertocle only. When I changed that angle at the bottom of the back cut, I now have the coped joint all the way to the back of the other joint.

Here is the correct joint after I changed the angle of backcut.

Is it me… or does anybody else find it is easier to cope with a slightly dulled blade?

For small quarter round consider using a Dremel with the sanding drum.
First cut a 45 on the piece to be coped, then sand along the cut line at 90° to the long edge of the molding.
Once the material is removed angle slightly to do a back cut.

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Don’t obsess. Once you put a coat of paint on it no one will notice. After all it is toe molding, not exactly at eye level.

Once you’ve coped the piece, back cut with a pocket knife to perfect the fit.

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Thing about Cope cuts is, if you do them all the time, it’s a muscle memory thing.

If you don’t do them all the time, but want them to be flawless without a lot of fooling around, you buy an Easy Coper.

http://www.easycoper.com/crown_molding_coping_jig.htm

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I cope w/Bosch barrell grip jigsaw an their scroll blades. Not for stain grade but fine for paint. An/or I’ll cut inside corners on a 44- degree, outside on a 46

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Don t obsess. Once you put a coat of paint on it no one will notice. After all it is toe molding, not exactly at eye level.

Once you ve coped the piece, back cut with a pocket knife to perfect the fit.

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I use a dowel wrapped with sandpaper.

Use some Timber mate wood putty in there. leave it for 20 minutes, wipe of the excess with a wet cloth, paint over it and no worries!