Engravers Sandbags
These are the best sandbags you can buy and are of the same quality as those sold years ago, very firm and made from best quality vegetable tanned leather with braided polyester
stitching and a mellow burnished finish.
This is an essential piece of equipment as a support for the block whilst engraving, please note that engravers sandbags differ from jewellers sandbags the latter are usually soft, with a suede finish and designed to hold the work piece steady, for wood engraving a smooth hard packed leather sandbag with a firm surface, one side slightly domed to aid as a support for manipulating the block when engraving and the other having a flatter face for stability.
They come in two different sizes, 6 and 8 inches in diameter.