Manual Leather Skiver Peeler Splitter Thinning Skiving Machine Leathercraft Edging Machine for DIY Project

Although good / strong / quality material, it failed / broke within a month (30days) of use.

This CAN be a good purchase. It's, price wise, cheap. The machine itself, yeah, it's made pretty cheaply to. ONLY BUY OF YOU'RE WILLING TO SPEND ABOUT AN HOUR TUNING IT!For tuning the goal is to get rid of all the extra wobbles, wiggles, and jimmying by "correcting" for horrible tolerances.1)Start with removing the pins that are clipped on. (Attach a small magnet next to the clip so that it doesn't go across the room or you lose it some other way. )2) Remove the adjuster knob.3) Remove the screwed in inserts that holds the pin and the adjuster knob.4) Wrap the threads of inserts with thread tape.5) Tighten the lower insert until right and aligned so that the forks on the adjuster align properly. (Put a small screwdriver through the insert. Don't He-Man it into place, the main body of the machine is pot metal and will strip out.)6) Place a thin washer between the top insert and the body. (This gives it a further range of motion for tilting the blade. ) Then attach the insert just like you did for the lower one.7) Sqeeze the forks on the adjuster so that it slides onto the insert tightly. (No He-Man, remember cheap easily broken parts. And one is right hand thread and one is left. Finding a left handed threaded anything is horrible.) Align the hole of the fork with the insert.8) Wrap the pins in a couple layers of aluminum foil. (Your shiming the pins to fit tighter.) Twist the pin on the same way the foil is wrapped, don't push it straight in. That will bunch the foil and remove it from where you need it.9) Once the pins are in check for wobble. It you have ANY try again with the above steps.10) Remove the horizontal Allen head bolt that is above the razor blade. Thread tape it and reinstall. Ensure no wobble at that point.11) Remove the 2 pivot screws (horizontal allen head bolts below the spring with a stop nut on them). Thread tape and reinstall. Both pivot screws have a point and they must align with the dimple inside or out won't adjust correctly/ evenly. Do not over tighten the pivot screw or set nut. (Common theme here right....)12) Remove the vertically mounted turn screw and add a set nut. (This isn't mandatory, however, when you use it and the adjustment slips you'll hate yourself for not having done it.)13) If you have a bench vise use that to secure the machine into place during use vs the janky table mount bolt.14) Don't think you need a huge angle to skive with. The small roller pin, a tight angle, and holding the material that is not being trimmed lower than the roller pin.The full roller pin is only used for skiving the piece flat instead of giving it a bevel. I've got mine tuned so that I can reliably Skive down to half a mm. Once you get it right, it's a simple machine so it shouldn't need much if any maintenence.

You get what you pay for!! Yep, it was cheap and it is cheap. There was no tension bar for the lever adjustment. The "spings" look like they are nothing but hand coiled wire someone made themselves. The base attachment "plate" wasn't on and the hole drilled in it wouldn't fit over the screw for attaching it to a work stand. I had to drill and new hole and attach a locking nut and washer in order to place it in position on a workbench. You get what you pay for! Lesson learned....DON'T BUY IT!

Out of the box this did not work at all for me. First, the blade was set too far forward of the rolling pin that the leather rides on. The blade would not bite in to the leather. I had to take a file to both mating surfaces and use a thinner washer than the one that was originally installed in order to move the blade directly above the rolling pin. This solved the cutting problem. Next, the blade kept drifting down after each reset of the cut. This was causing me to cut through the leather if I was having to take multiple passes. This can be solved with a jam nut on the the height adjustment knob. It adds an extra step and tool during adjustments but it is a must. Finally, I had to shim or bend most all of the interacting parts to reduce the slop to an acceptable tolerance. This took a couple of hours of work but I now have a functional tool.

Hard to adjust as everything seems to be loose when it arrived. After following some tips from a YouTube video, I was able to make it work but had to re tighten after a few uses. When working with tooling veg tan, it left marks on the leather which in my case made the leather useless. Handle broke off after a month. I trashed it.

took a little time to get use to. once i did , worked great.

Works much better for veg tan leather. Really need to work with this tool to get it to do what you want it to. Definitely practice on scrap leather to get the feel for how deep it will skive. For the money it's not bad, but hand skiving still better for me, personally.

The media could not be loaded.  This thing is awesome!! I made a video for a group I’m in so I figured I’d share it here too! Easy to use and has saved me countless hours within a week of delivery! It comes with replacement blades and different sized rollers for skiving width.

Out of the box there is a lot of play on the connections and adjustment screws, which makes it very difficult to use.After tightening all of these down, and adding some PTFE tape to the threads it works perfectly even on soft leather which I've always had trouble skiving.

Der Versand war wirklich unglaublich schnell. Angekommen macht das Gerät auch erst mal einen guten Eindruck. Der Anbau an die Arbeitsplatte erfolgt erst mal mit Schrauben aus der eigenen Werkstatt. Die erste Rasierklinge ist schon verbaut.....weitere liegen nicht dabei. Die Klingen für etwas dickeres Leder sind sehr stabil und auch scharf. Beim Austausch der ersten Klinge ist das Gewinde für die Klingenaufnahme schon sehr seltsam abgenutzt oder verkehrt geschnitten...nicht sehr vertrauenserweckend. Der Hebel für die Höhenverstellung liegt beim dritten Einstellen schon in der Hand.....ich habe das ganze Teil wieder verpackt und zurückgeschickt. Schade um die ganze Zeit von der Bestellung bis zum Eintreffen. Aber das ist Schrott in Kartonage verpackt. Ich bleibe beim Skiven per Hand.