The day I realized I'd been cutting crown molding upside down for 7 years

I was helping my buddy frame out his basement in Wichita last spring, and he stopped me mid-cut and just laughed. He said 'dude, you're holding that thing backwards, the spring angle is off.' I had been cutting crown molding with the bottom edge against the fence instead of the top edge since I started doing trim work. Made every corner gap look terrible and I just thought that was how it was supposed to fit. Has anyone else discovered they were doing some basic step completely backward for years?

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elliot_king6d ago

Funny enough I've done crown molding the exact same way for 15 years and never had a problem, maybe you just weren't working the gaps right.