Your floor and kitchen are beautiful. Am I correct that waterlox is a tung oil finish? I am (pleasantly) surprized that the oil turned your white oak so dark and similar to my floor. Do you think the picture pretty accurately shows the color? Also I don't see any quarter round or base shoe, did you take off your old moldings before the installation.

handymac, thank you for the suggestion. If it's what I think it is, I remember seeing it on This Old House's website where Tom Silva was putting up crown. He was going to nail it the normal way because the tutorial wasn't about truss uplift. But the same triangular-wedge 'cripple' could apply I think. The key, if I'm interpreting you correctly, is to nail the 'wedge' only to the ceiling and then nail the crown in the center of the wedge angling the nail up so as not to catch any of the wall. It's definitely worth a try. The only difficulty I can foresee is being able to nail that wedge into the ceiling and hoping the truss bottom (forget the term now) is right on top of - or at least overhanging a bit - the joist(?). You know, the structure at the top of the studs. Again, not sure of the term. If we don't catch that truss wood when nailing the 'wedge', which will be holding the crown, then we'd either be nailing into that joist and defeat the purpose or just nailing into ceiling drywall! I agree that those ring-shanks are the way to go for the wedge. So, perhaps that'll cover our a$$es if we don't catch wood. lsst, I've heard about that 'stretchy' caulk. Never tried it though. I think seasons and seasons of using regular caulk - that ultimately separated - kind of shied us away from anything that even had the word "caulk" in it. :( But I'll check it out again. If you have the name of the product you used, I'd really appreciate it. green-zeus, yes, that's the key to putting up crown for this purpose. Nailing it to the walls would defeat that purpose. As I said, the problem, thus far has been trying to figure out how to only nail it to the ceiling. The top nail surface on any crown doesn't leave much fudge room to nail w/o splitting the wood. But, handymac's suggestion sounds doable. At least it's worth a shot! :) I'm still curious if anyone's tried that peel-n-stick or polystyrene formed crown. Maybe I should make a separate post for that. Thanks again!

Some of the busier soap forums will have the information you are after. Try the Soap Dish; I remember reading about formulas for figuring out wooden soap molds (it was quite a few years ago).

(I forgot to check the e-mail response box when posting so didnÂt know anyone had answered) Thanks for your response, bobsmyuncle. I do overanalyze, thatÂs true. What concerns me is that I want to be able to hang it on the wall, so donÂt want to have the tile drop out. Has anyone made a hanging one? I had not thought of Goop, I do have some. I donÂt have the equipment to rabbet, but having a wooden base under the tile will work as well.