Part of my kitchen remodeling involves cutting and mitering really nice stained 6" wide molding boards that cover the gap between the top of the wall cabinets and the ceiling. They are installed vertically. (Crown molding gets installed on top of that.) The throat of my compound miter saw is too small to make that cut vertically or laying flat. I have one of those cheap "table saws" ... its really just a table with an old circular saw mounted underneath. Unfortunately, it doesn't tilt 45 for all of the corners I need to cut. I cut the end off of one long piece by hand with a new/good circular saw using a fence clamped to board as a guide but that won't work on smaller pieces. Plus its not as accurate.
I seem to have 2 options...1) go buy a new half decent quality table saw or 2) lay the board flat on the miter saw, cut as much as I can with the blade tilted 45, then flip and rotate the board to cut the rest. While I usually look for any excuse to buy new tools, a new table saw won't get used much after this project. (And no...I don't know anyone I can borrow a good table saw from.)
Has anyone used method #2 with any success?? I want the corners to be really tight...I don't want this to be a "caulk and putty" job! I think this will result in miscuts and some wasted wood but thought I would check first.
Thanks.
--Jeff