I have a whole pile of scraps from nice wood that went into backs and sides. I just can not use these as stove kindling. I was thinking, and based on some ideas from the luthier conferences I went to this summer, I have come up with a way of using the scraps to make up headplates. It looks pretty neat (I think) and is really pretty easy to do, with no trial-and-error fitting of pieces. One is always just gluing a straight edge to a straight edge. For the moment I’m calling these “Picasso” headplates (for the cubist look) but maybe I’ll call them “stained glass”. Here is the first one, with a quick coat of shellac to show some color.
