Speedball 4203 Speedy-Cut Easy Block Printing Carving Block – Soft Rubber-Like Material, Blue, 6 x 11 Inches

Love this blue block! I prefer it over the pink. It’s more crumbly than the pink, but I can get better detail with it.

I wanted this one for its more unique size ratio, and to try the blue over the pink or grey blocks I had carved previously. I don’t know if this one was just faulty, but it was so crumbly it’s almost unusable. I’m still going to try finishing the carving just because this is unreturnable now sadly, but I’ve already had to lose a lot of the details I was wanting to carve because they just crumble and fall off. I can’t say I’m willing to experiment with a new block type again after this.

Love these! I use them all the time. MUCH nicer than the pink ones, which crumble easily.

If I could give this product NO STARS, I would. Medium is stiffer than the pink alternative but the surface is so soft you can rub it off with your finger. Carving was not an option - the back side of tools leave an impression in the medium and blade pushes medium rather than cuts it. It DOES function like an eraser but is way too expensive to USE as one. Speedball, Did you even TEST this stuff before you packaged it for sale??

Very easy to use.

Very soft and easy to cut

I only finished my project because I really wanted to see how this mess would look like. I was actually surprised. This crumbly medium has its charm! Final result looks blurry and soaked, but it's a style. I like the final product, but didn't like working on it.

This product was a little too soft to get any real detail in at all. I have used another soft product in the past but it was much smoother and so easier to get fairly good detail with. This would be good for basic things but not so much for fine lines or smaller lettering.