Out of depth...

As the Hex Terrain Toolkit is used rather intensively, there is bound to be some wear on the parts... The first piece to show this is the depth cutter. More precisely, the bit that's used to cut the Hexes in half... These half thickness Hexes are used for rivers, risers and snowflakes, this means it gets used a lot...

It might have something to do with the fact I use a table cutter instead of a hand held model. This means the hot wire is in contact with the same spot of plywood kit for longer periods of time, the high temperature of the wire burning into the wood and glue. Or maybe it's just the increased power of the table cutter when compared to a hand held model...

Either way, the module is damaged to such an extent that the precision the whole system relies on, is lost...

The wear on the Toolkit... 

I came up with a solution to this problem...

A piece of MDF board with two pieces of wood, glued on top as guides. The wooden guides are 9mm tall (at least, they were supposed to be). So I glued a sheet of 1.5mm plasticard in between them. As this proved to be insufficient (as the wooden guides were closer to 9.5mm) I added a layer of 0.5mm plasticard. Now this little contraption gives me the 7.5mm of depth I need.

This picture shows the two layers of plasticard...

I could have asked for a replacement, and in time I probably will, as the regular depth cutter is beginning to show signs of wear, too... But for now, this solution works as planned and results haven't suffered.