Crown Molding and Trim: Install It Like A Pro! Paperback – Illustrated, November 28, 2012

Crown Molding and Trim: Install It Like A Pro! 2nd edition provides the knowledge you need for installing crown molding in an easy to read format. Well organized. While the supporting website still exists, the company is no longer in business and the custom tools. software and other items in the book can no longer be purchases through that site. (this is not stated in the book or at the site.)

This book provides a fantastic explanation of crown molding miter and bevel cut angles. It provides details on how to determine cut angles for a sloped ceiling as well as cutting pieces to fit bull nose corners. I consider myself fairly experienced but crown molding is a whole other world (you know that arctan of tan stuff). The book eliminates these calculations by providing charts for making cuts using a miter saw, a compound miter saw and non-standard trim spring angles.I was able to successfully cut my crown molding the first time using this book. Very pleased.

Lots of information here, and some very well laid out solutions to the more odd situations. I would advise this book for anyone who wants to do some trim work in the house, it's easy to forget some of the tricks and more esoteric situations. Clear pictures, great instructions. I got the original version which has no advise on using air nailers, it only covers using hammer and nails. And if at all possible GET A COMPRESSOR AND AIR NAILER! It is SO much easier and cleaner. I suspect the second edition might be more up to date on this subject.

Okay, this was (for me at least) one of those books that I truly felt was well worth the money. I was so impressed with the way the author wrote the instructions--he appeared to really want to teach--I went online and attempted to speak with the author. Unfortunately, I was not able to reach the author but I did get a person (wife? coworker?) and she informed me that the author had developed some significant health problems and the company had closed. I have many woodworking books and some by top-name people in the industry. The author of this book, in my nonprofessional opinion, deserves a "job well done." I can't recommend this book enough---excellent instructions.

I found this to be an extremely informative book. It has content in it for working with sloped and cathedral ceilings that most other books on trim leave out. There are plenty of photos, all black and white but the print quality of the photos leaves much to be desired. However, you can see enough detail in virtually all photos that the print quality does not seriously take away from the quality of the book -- if you can see well.The shining quality of this book is its devotion to the use of crown molding. Very little coverage on any other trim work. If you want a more thorough treatment of other trim work, I would suggest the following books:Decorating With Architectural Trimwork: Planning, Designing, Installing. ISBN 1580110789Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, Base and Crown: ISBN 1561583219

Very thorough and well thought out. Will definitely help teach anyone and everyone learn how to run crown. My one suggestion would be to do as instructed and read (almost) the entire book before jumping in feet first. I could’ve avoided a lot of mistakes had I not jumped ahead of myself. Great book though!

If you love decorating your subject with crown or any other molding shapes this book is for you. No easier book I have ever seen in my entire 56 years than this one. I even became a pro teaching my friends who love molding many ways to get the job done quickly and accurately with ease.So simple book even a novice can do better than experts in this field after reading this book. Pictures are adding more clear ideas and new techniques. Go ahead and buy yet you wont regret it. I will be looking forward to seeing a new edition to buy it. again and again.

I install trim a couple times a year as a do-it yourselfer and I can generally eyeball my first cut (leaving the stock long if possible) and then make 2,3 or 4 refining cuts getting closer each time until I end up with the perfect miter cut. I bought this book hoping to become an expert in making my cuts dead on the first time - but it did not help.Issues:1. The book does contain a lof of upselling to buy the author's angle finders and to go to his website. Kind of annoying.2. The book is very technical, and not that easy to follow and understand. The author seems to ramble on all over the place about how to make different kinds of miter cuts rather than lay it out in easy to follow style (For an inside right Crow Molding - Step 1.. Step 2... Step 3..For an inside left Crown Molding, step 1...Step 2...)3. The book can be confusing because its not clear when the author is speaking at times whether he's referring to a compound saw or non-compound saw...or whether it's a saw that makes compound cuts in both directions or only one...4. The book contains too make tables and charts. In today's world I would think everyone has (or can affordibly purchase) a compound miter saw so there is no need for different tables for compound and non-compound miter saws. The book would be better to focus on using just one saw type instead of trying to be all encompassing. Then all instructions should be specific to taht exact saw (for example, a compound miter saw that makes the compound cuts only to one side).5. The charts provided are too accurate to be reasonably useful. For example, good luck accurately setting a 36.4 degree angle. No matter how expensive your saw is, you're unlikely to ever get it set to that level of accuracy. Even with using an extra tool. I suppose someone with a state of the art computer controlled machine might be able to set such an exact number, but for the rest of us, even after using a extra angle tool, you're still likely to be off by several degrees on your cut.6. The book often references setting angles above 45 degrees. (I admit I might be missing somthing here) but I have 3 compound miter saws and none of them can make any cut greater than 45 degrees.I won't say the book is terrible, because I think the author has legitimately tried to help people learn to master miter cuts. And it may for some people. But for me, in the end, it was simply too technical and confusingly organized to be useful. I spent about 15-18 hours reading the book over one weekend and trying to make accurate cuts, only find it is much easier to do what I always did: Look at the angle on the wall, make an approximate eye-ball cut, check it for fit, and then go back and make a slight refining cut, then check it again, and repeat until you've got the perfect angle. If the saw is in the room you can make 3 or 4 refining cuts and check the fit each time to get the perfect cut within 2 minutes. You may waste a little stock, but no more than when using the system in this book, because as I said you're saw is never going to be accurate to a tenth of a degree that the book instructs you to set it at.3 stars because it has some generally helpful information, and it may be a good book for some people that the books resonates with (just didn't resonate with me)... I would recommend the author update the book to be specifically written for one type of saw (like 10" compound miter saws with motors on the right that only make compound cuts on the left side. Then includes specific steps through each cut.)