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| Author: | J De Rocher [ Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
It still hasn't become a big problem yet, but I can see it becoming one eventually. So far, the only uses I've found for them are making back reinforcement strips from the tops, bookmatched headplates, end grafts, and tiles for rosettes. That still leaves a lot of unused wood and I can't bring myself to toss it, at least not yet. Has anyone here come up with good uses for this leftover wood, or do you just toss it at some point? |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I give pieces of useful size to the guy that lasers my headplates, for his use in making jewelry, boxes, etc., and the rest I make myself chuck. |
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| Author: | dpetrzelka [ Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I used to get cut-offs from a friend that I used to rescale vintage straight razors. Maybe you could find a knife maker / razor restorer to take them. |
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| Author: | Link Van Cleave [ Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
What you do is to store them for 10 to 15 years, until you don't know what you have or where it all is exactly. Then you do a huge clean up, find stuff you forgot you had make the hard call to toss them out or burn them and then wait 1 month or so until you will need some of it. ![[headinwall]](./images/smilies/headbangwalluf8.gif "Mad") ![[uncle]](./images/smilies/surrenderflagqv6.gif "Uncle") L. |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I use the top cutoff to make sound hole donuts and back strip, I use the back cutoffs to make bridge patches, end wedges, heel caps. I will join the cutoff from around the waste to make peghead veneers. But yea I have a large box. |
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| Author: | SteveSmith [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I do the usual things, backstrips, head plates, tail grafts and so on. I keep the more interesting pieces that are large enough to do something with then gather up the small, skinny pieces once a year and use them for kindling in my wood stove. |
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| Author: | ernie [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I watched a video . Where one guitaramker had a box full of old scrap maple spruce eir, mahog , etc , he used these woods to match repairs on old instruments.It was a large wood box with a lid. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I have enough left over for the usual things including repair splints and so on. So now mine just go to the fire pit. |
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| Author: | Mark Fogleman [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Check my brother's Etsy store for offcut ideas: https://www.etsy.com/listing/513530531/natural-edge-ebony-and-koa-pendant |
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| Author: | truckjohn [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I burn them to start the BBQ grill. I had a big box full of that stuff... I kept thinking I would use it for something... But I never did. At some point - you just gotta let it go. |
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| Author: | Ben-Had [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
truckjohn wrote: I burn them to start the BBQ grill. I had a big box full of that stuff... I kept thinking I would use it for something... But I never did. At some point - you just gotta let it go. Yup. I keep enough variety and quantity to do all the things mentioned and burn the rest once or twice a year when I go camping. We call it FART (Fire ART). It is always the most expensive campfire of the year. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Recently I used some EIR offcuts for ukulele fingerboards. If you build smaller instruments you may find uses for some of the offcuts. Another use I've found is finish test pieces. |
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| Author: | Lonnie J Barber [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I'm awful I never toss anything away. I save it I'm always using it for something or other Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | quentinjazz [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Glue them together to make a big pile, and then cut it and use it to make pretty tool handles! |
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| Author: | printer2 [ Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
A tonewood quilt? |
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| Author: | David Newton [ Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I may bring my box to a local "Junk Days" we have locally, some sucker will drag it home. Except for the Rosewood box. I use some bits, and I add some bits, but it never gets overfilled. |
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| Author: | Wayne Brown [ Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Make ukuleles! My first one is called "Wood Pile". |
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| Author: | Arnt Rian [ Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I remember someone mentioned on a similar discussion years ago that they kept a box of offcuts, labeled "pieces too small to keep"... |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
That's hilarious. |
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| Author: | J De Rocher [ Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I think I'll contribute some of mine to the Seattle Luthiers Group's annual end-of-summer bonfire on the beach. |
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| Author: | nkforster [ Sat Mar 04, 2017 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
If it's no use, it's useless. Throw it away/give it away/burn it. Space is worth more than scrap. |
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| Author: | douglas ingram [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Consider the off cuts that a canoe shop generates and be thankful that guitars, and the resultant off cuts, are all so small. Keep a box for useful spare scrap that will suffice for your needs , anything that doesn't fit is scrap. Unless its better than the scraps that are already in your box. I keep the bigger stuff and the more interesting pieces. From everything else I extract its thermal potential. |
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| Author: | James Ringelspaugh [ Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
Luxury kindling. Or find someone who makes much smaller things like jewelry. |
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| Author: | Alex Kleon [ Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
I've given my neighbour at least 400lbs of QS white oak scrap from the kitchen I'm working on, with soft maple scap coming. There was some pretty nice pieces, 10"-20" long, but I'd be swimming in scrap if I kept them. I wish he'd take the 35+ bags shavings, as well! Alex |
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| Author: | Dave Baley [ Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The stack of back and top off cuts is growing |
As a repair person, that does not (yet) build, I could use a small box of off cuts. If anyone in the So California area has some they want to get rid of, let me know. If anyone further away is desperate to get rid of a small box of pieces, I will send you money for shipping. Dave |
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