What is an Offcut?

An offcut is the bit you didn't need. You cut the part you wanted, and there is always something left over. A stub of ash. A strip of carbon that was slightly too short to matter. Half a sheet of aluminium with one good bend already in it.

In theory you throw it out. In practice you put it on the shelf, because binning good material feels wrong, and because you tell yourself you will use it for something. You almost never do. The shelf fills up anyway.

This is that shelf.

Not everything I make earns a full project page. Some of it is a test. Some of it took an afternoon. Some of it is an idea that stopped halfway and still looked good enough to keep. And some of it is not my work at all, just a detail I noticed on something well made and wanted to think about out loud. A hinge. An edge. The way a chair leg meets a seat.

So Offcuts is the leftover pile. Smaller work, half-ideas, and notes on design worth a second look.

No schedule, before you ask. I have promised weekly things before, and my shelf has watched me fail. This one posts when there is something worth posting.

Bring the pieces that were too short to matter. Those are often the good ones.