Installing Baseboard: Coping Inside Corners 

I’ve been watching finish carpentry videos for a while now. I can say you sir, you covered 100% of the topic

You are by FAR the best at explaining anything on carpentry, THANKS!

Well, well, well, how clever is that. Great work Stan, bloody GOOD work! I did a 440 meter building (that is 1600 meters of skirting) at my home using the method where I cut the straight edge of the skirting at an inward angle with the power saw, and then simply used the coping saw to cut around the edge of the curved top corner. Very simple, very clean. But having seen the saw in use, I'm sold. You bet.

Best coping video out there. Educational, safe, effective

Great tutorial! I am remodeling a 55 year old ranch and there is not a square corner in it. This made the coping process easy, practiced on 1/2 a dozen copes before beginning the actual project. I am not up to varnish quality yet but I'll keep practicing.

I coped some crown a few years back using a 20 year old cheap jig saw and Gary's DVD. As I approached close to the line I used a Dremel with a sanding drum. It came out great. Now I am have a barrel saw with a Collins Coping Foor and am going to run a couple hundred feet of BB.

The best coping instructions I've found yet. Thanks!

THANK you forf this! Amazing that I have been doing normal 45' degree cuts when this looks SOOO much better!

Just bought the jigsaw coping shoe and stumbled upon your video for techniques on using it. Your video is very informative (probably more for professionals than amateurs ) Cheers! (subscribed!)

Does the guy know if he cuts the flat part in his mitersaw he could save a ton of time.

That's a good tip Stan, I always tell the wife the same thing, "always keep two hands on the tool"

I'd love to see Gary, Tom Silva, & Norm build a house.

Wow, Awesome video. Love the detail in your videos. Thanks.

Great tutorial Your a natural teacher.

Bosch also makes a "barrel grip" saw that works quite well for coping. Collins coping foot on the saw, Bosch #T119BO or equivalent blade, combination file (course & fine) & a rat tail file for fine tuning on stain grade trim. Works great for me, just my 2 cents worth of opinion. Thanks Gary K. for your videos & various tips & techniques.

Great video. Nice bit of work by an expert.

A variable grinder with a sanding wheel makes coping easy work.

You are a great teacher Thank you!

Great Work, Thank You !!!

Coping saw made cleaner work.

You're awesome.

Why would you cope the end square? Put a little back angle on it.

Gary, your hand coping saw work is beautiful, you can tell you've spent many hours.

Stan lee?

If only i could actually find a coping foot. I've searched EVERYWHERE!

How to install skirting board's and internal scribes..much neater doing the mold part of the skirting with a coping saw.. jigsaw blades can bend n kick out.. n do the straight with a hand saw.. Cut with a slight angle away from the seen face , leading ede.. Bobs your uncle

That's not done in a production site right?

5-10-2021 Was this mitered on a 45° before copping?

What kind of hold down clamp are you using? I like that.

Top class tradesman

Is this hard to do with a regular jig. I don't have $3000 for a Festool. I usually use my table saw for my speed copes.

Where is part 3 of this video where you show install? You said you were going to show how to notch the baseboard with a utility knife to fit your 1/16th cutout. In addition, I would love to see your technique for install.

Why not start at the beginning for beginners? What angle did you cut?

I use a 4" angle grinder. Takes 30 seconds per cope.

I saw a guy use a hand grinder with a 40 grit disc. Seemed faster and easier. All about easy....

How to check out wood using a compound saw

If you have an drop saw then you just cut the 45 with that then coping saw for the rest

I use a scroll blade and cut it straight off at an angle, takes half the time you did it

What blade are you/is he using?

Nice skill level in following the edge so perfectly, not sure I could do that. I wonder if a scroll saw with the table tilted at an angle would work?

Is this faster then cutting 45 s

So in order?...1. Make relief cuts 2. cut on a 45 degree angle with coping saw

I have a odd cut I'm not having any luck with and yes I'm inexperienced but I'm trying to learn. I'm trying to cope cut the baseboard which will be butted up against a cabinet toe kick which has some decent curves to it. I can't trace the side I'm installing on so I traced the opposite side on the left on the back side of a scrap piece of baseboard. My issue is when I cut it with my coping saw the curves don't quite line up even though it's traced perfectly and I'm cutting on the line. It's almost like it's shifting the curves vertically a little and then it won't sit flush and leaves about a 1/8" gap. Is their a trick to this type of cut? I thought surely I could just trace it and cut it but it's not working. I wasn't cutting my trim at 45degree first but is that required if your not mating the same two pieces of trim?

I always use a coping saw and probably always will. Jigsaws don’t always do it quicker and certainly not as neatly.

Nice work man! But it would be much easier and faster to miter both pieces, and glue them together. I’ve been doing it this way since 2002. Works fine.

I use a 5 inch Grinder with a turbo diamond blade. Can't beat it. Method in video is way too slow

Either the blades on backwards or he’s hand cutting petrified pine

That looks like a lot of work for a beginner.

That's fantastic I can ruin wood a lot quicker now

Such a pro, SAFETY GLASSES. It amazes me that people make these videos giving good advice and then proceed to fail at the most important aspect of DIY, safety. No one's going to be fitting base boards blind, lead by example........

if you got the money buy a coping machine if your doing this for living

Lol wow use a miter saw

15min for 1 corner my boss would kill me

RIP your fingers 0:01

Way to much talking other channels. Not doing. GREAT JOBS 👍

I WOULD GLADLY RACE YOU WITH YOU USING YOUR GOOFY JIG SAW AND ME USING MY COPING SAW WANNA MAKE A BET I WIN OMG

There is an easier and faster way.... a scroll saw with an adjustable top.

That top point needs to be cut off square. It SHOULD NOT overlap adjacent base.

when will americans start using the metric system jesus christ

Ever heard of a dremil? This is like a video from the 60's

I can cope any trim faster and better with a coping saw than you can with your silly "all new" methods.

Old fashioned and tedious. Nobody installs base like this anymore, you'd get some crazy looks if ppl saw you doing this on my jobsite, I'd be done and on my next job by the time you got done with your inside corners.

Great Work !!! Thank You!!!!

I saw a guy use a hand grinder with a 40 grit disc. Seemed faster and easier. All about easy....