leet32•3mo ago

Appreciation post: The guy in Boise who showed me his corner bead trick

I always clipped my metal bead with tin snips and thought that was fine. Then I saw a guy on a job in Idaho just score it with a knife and snap it clean. Took him maybe two seconds per cut. I tried it with a basic utility knife and it's way faster with no sharp edges. Anyone have a better way to handle outside corners on old, wavy walls?

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henry_webb683mo ago

Ever try a rasp on those wavy spots after mudding, like haydenwright said?

phoenixgonzalez2mo ago

mud generously and sand even more" sounds like the real cost of those old walls. How do you know when to stop building out the mud versus just planing down the high spots first?

haydenwright3mo ago

All those years of wrestling with tin snips and getting little metal shards everywhere, and the answer was a simple knife score. Makes you wonder what other basic tricks we're all overcomplicating out of habit. That guy in Boise saved you a lot of future frustration with one demo. For wavy walls, sometimes you just have to mud generously and sand even more.