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I don't do a lot of skirting these days but I used to cope with a jigsaw when I was doing entire houses. Now I use the starett 505-p7 to find the angles and they come out bang on.
It's so quick and the pieces fit together so well there's not much making good which speeds up the process and improves the finish. It does need the big mitre saw on site though.
Last room I did all the skirting for was just before christmas, it took about 1 1/2 hours to cut it. Probably 5x4m, big bay window. Easy room though as the floor was level.
Airhead
You're really being too kind. Yes what I did was complicated but all of the mitres were to match a factory made 90 degree angle so all of those cuts were bang on 45 degrees - as straightforward as it gets as long as your chopsaw is set up properly. I know that Airhead disagrees with me on this but when an internal mitre is required I will always cope the joint rather than trying to get an internal mitre looking good as it's much more straightforward with more wiggle room.
In reality the most difficult task I had with that was safely cutting the small pieces of wood. Especially as my small portable chopsaw's blade was about as sharp as a butter knife so I only had my 12" beast available to me which is so powerful that it tends to grab hold of small workpieces and fire them out the back with enough speed to reduce the workpiece to splinters and mangle your hand in a nasty way.