Board to punch leather stiching

[Doc Reaper]

I use a small log and a thick square of leather as a pounding post

[AussieTanker]

Thank you everyone.  It's been real interesting to see the wide variety of responses. I think I have it sorted now.  I'm going to use a combination of some of the above suggestions and will see how I go with that.  Thank you everyone for your impute and help.

[Cattleman]

I have a large black square of some type of low density poly... I got it out of a box of my dads old leather working stuff from the 80s... I believe its similar if not the same as poundo board... Probably about 3/8" thick. Its pretty flexible, when I found it it had been in a bucket for about 30 years... And was thus curved. I placed it under my tooling rock for 2 days and it flattened right out. I use it for all my punching needs from stitch chisels to hole punches to large end punches. Works great and doesnt damage the cutting edges.

Edited August 17, 2023 by Cattleman