Hi,

Do you want to make clip ins out of hand tied hair?  I do that all the time, it's my favorite because they don't shed.

Some people do cut them after applying nail glue, but I have never done that.

As for straggering them, I believe  you are referring to the tutorial I wrote on making clip ins.

What I mean by staggering:

As you know, hand tieds come in widths of 10".  Well, depending on the size of your head, 10" wide may not go all the way around your head.  For instance, I know that my top 2 tracks measure 12" wide, because I like to make sure I have a lot of hair near my face.

So, when I make my tracks with hand tieds, I first decide how many of those little guys I want per track.  For me, since I like wearing a lot of hair, I usually put 3-4 per track.

Well, now I have 4 pieces that each are 10" wide, and I somehow need to make them into a 12" wide track.  That's where the staggering comes in.  I lay one weft down and then lay the others on top of it, but extend the others out to the width is 12".  I measure with my tape measure to the appropriate width.

I then carefully pick them up and zig zag stitich it on the sewing machine and voila, I've got a 12" track made out of hand tieds, not cutting involved.

Now if you want a track shorter than 10", than you just need to fold the weft over until it measures the width you need.

Good luck!

Wow, I have never heard of a hand tied track that was 4 feet wide!  That must be some kind of specially made product.

I think that many here have used the glue method to cut hand tieds.  I think it would probably be ok. 

Once you cut the pieces apart and sew them together, I'd take some of that brush on nail glue and run it along each weft top for more added security.