Wax dipped leather punching mat.

[SUP]

Others have probably tried this already but since I discovered it new for myself, I thought of putting it up here.

I use thick leather splits as punching mats. I often also use a block of wax. I sometimes place the split piece on the wax block so that even if the punch goes through, it just gets lubricated with wax.

When I was last melting the wax block to smoothen it, I  dipped the leather split piece in  the melted wax. I let it absorb for a minute or two on both sides and then kept it aside to dry. It dried hard, harder than the original split and it works well as a punching mat.

For the wax, I used a mix of paraffin wax and beeswax. Plain paraffin is too brittle and pure beeswax is too sticky. Together, they work well for me, both in block form as well as in the punching mat.

 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by SUP