Carpentry and Woodworking - Coping Crown!!!

Anyone in here ever purchase/use and "EasyCoper"? I have a large crown project pending and am not exactly a pro at this...yet. I understand the basics of coping crown, and have been experimenting to get it right before I do the job, but there will be a LOT, and I found this tool online. Any comments???

I have seen it advertised in trade journals and looked it up on the net, considered buying one but...........the old coping saw has been with me for a long time. Still works well, only needs new blades occasionally. New blades do make the job go quicker.

Coping is just one aspect of crown molding. There is still a challenge with measuring, figuring out angles, cutting it upsidedown and backwards, hanging it at the correct angle to the wall, etc. This tool may make coping easier, but once you learn how to hold the crown at the correct angle, coping is not really that difficult.

If this tool was given to me as a gift, I think I would use it once to "check it out" and it would probably then be relegated to the shelves in my shop to collect dust.

If you can cope baseboard trim and shoe molding, then crown coping will be a snap. You just have to hold it up at the same angle as you would relative to the wall it would go on, as opposed to the baseboard/shoe that you would lay flat to cope.

i don't do much coping any more, but i would like to know about the tool. i haven't seen it. from the work i've seen done lately, there isn't many people who even know how to cope or even what it is!

fine tooth blade and patience!!

I've been coping crown for around 20 years now, and have been looking for an "easy" way to do it the whole time. I saw the easy coper at one of the more well known woodworking stores, and went there and bought one. I tried it out on some scrap pieces left over from a job.


It wasn't easy at all to get a clean enough cope for a good tight fit to the neighboring piece without gaps. I'm not cheap when it comes to installing crown, and my customers expect tight fits.

I'm going to stick with the old method because I get the results I want.

I took it back to the store (because it was expensive) and the clerk at the store said he expected me back with it soon. lol

Likewise, I just like the feel of a coping saw and rounded/flat sanding block. The reciprocal movement of the mechanical saw blade would leave too much splintering for me.

I always cope with a jigsaw (don't use easycoper or any other jig). If you get the right blade (the thin ones that turn tight corners, which look almost like a coping saw blade) it works great. Haven't used a real coping saw in years. A rasp fine tunes up the face of the cope quickly, just like when you cope by hand.

One thing I've always wanted to buy for my Bosch jigsaw is a Collins coping foot. It replaces the flat foot with one that allows you to get closer to the work and allows you to cut compound angles more easily.

As was suggested in several replies, it is rare to have a wall/ceiling joint that is an exact 90 deg angle, which makes most "handy tools" useless.

I've tried the "coping" style blades with a jigsaw too, and depending on the size of the crown, and the wood species, and the angle - I have pulled it off - of course fine tuning it with a rasp... a rasp comes in handy whatever method you use.

I very rarely come across a 90 deg wall, and even if I do - a lot of times it's out of plumb, making coping neccesary for the best result.

Gotta love painted crown in regards to ease of installation. Very forgiving.