(NIce job 987... nice results... nice method... nice write up... nice description... bloody waste of timber, unless SWMBO wanted compost (that doesn't work on the garden).
Because of the cost of cherry here in Australia, you'd be lynched (though I nealy got lynched, oops *******d (censored) for using that aggressive verbotten word at LJ) for such swarf wastage.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD