Hydroma Cutting Board

[GoldenKnight]

My wife uses that hydroma board as a light-weight replacement for the granite slab so she can tool with it in her lap while watching TV. I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to work for her.

For cutting stamps, I usually just put an old magazine or junk mail catalog under the leather and pound away....soft on the tools, and I don't scar up anything I care about.

I ordered the exact size I was needing (18" x 28" x 1"-thick) from Indusco (Hydroma Cutting Pad).

They charge $0.19 per square inch & will cut to any size you need. This is the HY-72 red-brown Hydroma. It took about 3-days to get to me.

Your round/head knife will glide across it like sharp ice skates without digging in and allows curved cuts without risk of damage to your round knife blade. This is SO MUCH BETTER than the white cutting board that I use on punches or other types of cutting.

For those punching holes for lacing, etc., I use a scrap or two of 9-11 oz leather under the project piece I'm punching so that if/when it goes through my target piece of leather, it goes into another piece of leather before hitting the cutting board and does not risk damage to my tools.

[Tannin]

Bingo!

I ordered the exact size I was needing (18" x 28" x 1"-thick) from Indusco (Hydroma Cutting Pad).
They charge $0.19 per square inch & will cut to any size you need. This is the HY-72 red-brown Hydroma. It took about 3-days to get to me.

Your round/head knife will glide across it like sharp ice skates without digging in and allows curved cuts without risk of damage to your round knife blade. This is SO MUCH BETTER than the white cutting board that I use on punches or other types of cutting.

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You can see this skating effect in this Tandy video @4:20:

[i would not use it for punching though. I use punch pliers for making holes when I can, otherwise the end-grain of a log which is stiff but yielding.]

[club49]

Thank you GoldenKnight I am going to order right now.

[George3]

I've used the Walmart white cutting boards for quite some time and I have never broken any tools!

Buy good tools once, buy cheap tools over and over again.

I have a wood shop and when the white cutting board gets on the rough side I run it through the planer and just skim the old marked up stuff off, when it gets real bad I buy my wife a new cutting board

[club49]

I received mine yesterday.I am very happy wit it.

[Danny Hustle]

I'm kind of late to the party but hydroma is great for cutting and punching. It should not hurt your die at all. I clicked about 1200 belt ends at work last week and the die was as sharp on Thursday as it was on Tuesday when I started. The Tandy price is very expensive though, you can get it on line much cheaper.