This video covers everything you need to know about using a hand operated clicker press, a "cookie cutter for leather" to quickly, easily and consistently cut leather for leathercraft. Chuck Dorsett and John Kline show how both the 4-ton and 8-ton manual clicker press machines are used to speed up the process of cutting leather parts and stamping leather precisely and consistently. Whether you're working with leather cutting dies, steel rule dies, or polycarb dies, a leather clicker press is one

Wrestling a full side of leather on the clicker press? No thanks.First thing I do, cut it into 11” strips. That simple move makes everything else smoother and way faster. Our Ranch Hand Mugs start out a little over 10” long, so slicing the side down first saves a ton of time and effort.This is a big batch, it took three full sides of English Bridle leather to get the blanks I need. One side gives me around 50 mugs, and it takes about an hour to process all the pieces. But that’s only possible be