Originally Posted by Yarn or Fabric
I found what I was looking for... Don't know why I didn't think of it until this morning.. but I started to just go through all of my past messages and I found what I was looking for...
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-27376-2.htm#573416
It is floor underlayment. I'm going to call some flooring companies to see if they have a scrap of it.
What I'm thinking is using it for my new, bigger ironing board this way if I need to trim something and iron, I have it right there on hand. I'm also thinking of using it on the table that I cut on so if you over cut you don't cut your table ;)
Thanks for your help guys!
Yarn/Fabric ... I looked at that thread. Homosote you would not cut on with a rotary cutter. That is unless you want to ruin your rotary cutter. The poster mentioned using it as a drapery cutting table, though she never said with a rotary cutter. I suspect she was using scissors or sliding a cutting mat in when needed
It is a firm substance, and tends not to warp. I am familiar with it from when my husband had model trains, as that's the table base that many use. It's a paper composition, so it will let you stick pins into it, which of course, we sometimes use!! :) Yes, you could use it for ironing, but I'd think only for spot jobs. And for on an ongoing basis, you would want it covered as you would with any ironing surface.
Because it would accept pins, I considered it for my design wall but not long, as the price was outlandish!!! Of course, perhaps in the USA it is not so?? Instead I went with tentest covered with fleece and screwed the panels onto the wall. It's much easier to put pins into than homosote .... yet with the fleece, I rarely rarely need a pin!
I don't think you're accomplishing anything more with the homosote than you could with plywood or chipboard. You've waited two years, so maybe there was a reason?