/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1155444
Here's a cool video that might give you some ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9YRAsT9nnU

Ruler dies are made from steel stock like the other anon said, the only ones I know much about are the ones used in cutting leather and fabric.

To do die cutting, you'll need dies and a press at minimum. commercial and industrial "clicker" machines like pic related are used to press shapes out of material and are hand or pneumatic operated, hydroma board is used on the bottom and is of a high quality and is considered industry standard in some circles.

If you want to do it yourself, you could cobble up a press from a vise screw (from your local woodwork supply company) mounted in a frame with a bit of butcher cutting board as an anvil and make up some dies using a jig and ruler die stock.
I think making the dies is going to be the hard part, you may need to weld braces in them to make sure they're strong enough, things get a bit more complex when you want to add hole punches and such but it should be doable with a bit of careful planning.

Check out
http://www.usacuttingdie.com
for example, to see what can be done and how they're built.

I hope this helps.