I've only built splints twice. The first time I placed at entire stack of rags on sticks and received the message 'stick is broken.' A rag was used and the stick was ruined.
The second time I split one rag by itself and placed it on a pristine stick.
It crafted a splint, leaving the rag and stick as pristine. I did this 3 times with same rag/stick.
To keep in the spirit of the game I dropped the extra splints and rag/stick.
I did the same, it dropped the splint on the floor but did not comsume rags or sticks, but instead of crafting more i waited, the sticks and rags eventually dissapeared from my inventory. Just a note, not saying the OP is wrong and that crafting will not yield more splints, just that if you wait the consumables eventually dissapears as intended.
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