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I had lost this board for a long time, I thought I might have passed it on to someone, but I've been digging deep in the wood pile, fall cleaning, and found it.
It has never been cut into, but I thought I'd see how it works, bends, for binding and purfling, I think it will.



It is a good-sized block, so I'll have quite a bit if it works out well.

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Mine bent quite well, sides and binding.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Satinwood makes great purflings. A bit yellow for bindings IMO.

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That's so funny, I think the yellow may be right up my alley. We will see...
I just finished making up bindings out of about half the block, 9 sets.

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This is one with satinwood bindings on Black Walnut B&S.
Could have looked better with BWB purfling on the bottom of the bindings, I will admit.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.