Spring angle

This crown is 38° this crown is 45°. What does that actually mean? Let's get after it. This angle right here where the crown meets the wall is called the spring angle. A spring angle just determines how far out your crown molding is from the wall. Here's how you can measure spring angle. Get yourself a framing square. This is going to be your wall side and this is going to be your ceiling. Take a little sliver of crown molding and place it in your framing square as it would sit on the wall. Make sure that it touches your wall here and make sure that it touches your ceiling here. Get yourself an angle finder, place it on your wall, just bring it up till they both line up. As you can see, this crown is 38°. Now, if you were to check this angle here, this angle should be 52° cuz 38 + 52 is 90. And just like that, we have 52°. We can see the same thing for a 45° crown. Now, 45° crown is a little bit easier because you should have the same measurement on both your wall and your ceiling. But to verify, and that'll be sitting at 45°, and this other measurement here is 45° as well. So, why does all this matter? Well, for a couple reasons. One, being aesthetics. If you're going for a certain look, buy a certain spring angle. But another reason, for when you're cutting crown flat, your miter and bevel settings are going to change depending on the spring angle of your crown. But anyways, I'm going to spring up out of here. I'll catch you guys later. Peace.