Copemaster - Hot Finds

Tools of the Trade, Sept-Oct, 2003 by Mark Clement

The Copemaster is a revolutionary new tool for coping moldings. It works like a key-duplicator: Insert a coped pattern into one side and a length of pre-mitered molding into the other. The stylus follows the pattern and a side-cutting saw blade recreates the cope. It's precise and fast. Tom McKeon, a trimmer for T&M Construction in North Haven, Conn., was among the first Copemaster users. "We used Copemaster on a 12-bay coffered ceiling," he says. "What would normally take all day--coping 48 inside corners--I did in two hours." * Copemaster. $2,295. 800-630-1104, www.copermaster.com. Circle #203. --M.C.

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