The Framers Forum

I try not to keep too many mountboard off-cuts, especially those less than 16" x 20". The effort required to do anything with them is rarely worth the bother. Most of it is just dead money and not worth getting fussed about!

I have the same view but keep a fair number back for recalibrating the gunnar, packing and other assorted jobs where a liitle bit of card is useful. The rest I give to the local WI, who find them useful for a variety of jobs and a local children's entertainer, who makes his own props (I did the panels for a tardis console for him a while back on the CMC).

A trick which works for me is to cut up my glass off-cuts into standard sizes before they get too small. There's not a lot of call for 7" x 5" ready mades, so I try to make my off-cut 12" x 10" or bigger.

Also, if you've got space to do it, you can cut some full size sheets of glass into the larger standard stock sizes and these will save cutting up full sheets in random ways which cause more wastage. There's quite a learning curve to it, but it can save a lot of un-necessary wastage and time!