custom die cut machine?
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If its just for your own low run use, you can get a die made as per scrapbooking store, back it up on a thick piece of cork backed with plywood, then use a woodworker's bench vice to press it through. Works quite well except that depending on the kind of die you get made (a cheap cookie one for example) it can distort if you over work the vice. I found the way to resove that was with a slab of one or two inch thick cork which you push the die into then nail a piece of plywood on the back of it as a hard surface that the die can't push through under pressure. The cork inside the die shape helps to keep the shape under pressure if you see what I mean, and always put a piece of sacrificial thick card between the die and your stock to get a nicer cleaner cut.
Used to make dies out of food can tin and pike nosed pliers at college!
- Yeah, you can also use a book press
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- Yeah, you can also use a book press