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Crown Miter Calculator

Enter the crown's spring angle and the corner angle and get the saw settings: miter and bevel for cutting flat on the table, or the single miter for cutting nested against the fence. Pick inside or outside corner and your saw type and it spells out which way to swing and tilt the left and right pieces — not just the angles, but exactly what to set and how to hold each cut.

Saw miter — both pieces
31.6°
Saw bevel — both pieces
33.9°
Both pieces lie flat on the table, ceiling edge toward you. LEFT piece: tilt the blade left. RIGHT piece: tilt the blade right. No flipping.
Outside corner: the long points are on the room side and meet at the outside arris — measure your wall length to the long point.

Planning tool — results are estimates for quoting and ordering, not engineering or building-code advice.

Common questions

What are the settings for standard 38° crown on a square corner?

Cutting flat: miter 31.6°, bevel 33.9° — the numbers etched on many saws' tables. For 45° crown it's miter 35.3°, bevel 30°. This calculator computes them for any spring angle and any corner, including out-of-square walls.

Flat or nested — which method should I use?

Nested (crown held against the fence at its spring angle) needs only a single miter cut — simplest if your saw's fence is tall enough. Flat needs the compound settings but handles wide crown that won't stand nested.

What's different on a single-bevel saw?

The angles are identical — but a single-bevel saw only tilts one way, so the opposite-hand cut requires flipping the workpiece end-for-end. The calculator's hint spells out the sequence so the flip isn't guessed.

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