stevieboy7

Who cares how the iron looks... as long as it works? Doesn't seem to be worth double the price for some fancier aesthetics. I don't know of any good leatherworking guys waiting on the AmyRokes... its just pushed by SimaPrague (they're probably giving him money/products for shoutouts) and all of his fanboys are just following suit. All of the good leatherworkers are either happy with their Blanchards, or have picked up a set of Japanese or Korean Irons that are perfectly fine.

As with most splitters, you're really only going to get 75% of the blade width at max. If you try splitting something that large, your going to run into a few problems with binding if the piece turns at all while feeding,as well, your blade needs to be stupid sharp and perfect everywhere to work that perfectly. It's not impossible, but I wouldn't expect to get constant results/repeatability at any constant rate.

You're looking at least $100 for materials to make anything decent. You need motors, one to power the knife and one to power the roller, or else you need to make them both run off one, or hand-crank. Either way, that can easily add another $100-200 cost. If your son does the metal-work for free, do you not value your time at all? I imagine it's going to take a minimum of 20 -30 hours to get a machine that probably doesnt work. You're going to invest a LOT of time, and a lot of materials and money and have something that doesn't work. There's a reason they're so expensive, they're very complcated machines, that are notoriously finicky. If you want to do it as a challenge, fine, but don't try to label it as saving money, as you're going to end up spending more than buying one to get a working machine.

Will this work or offer any discounts for shipping to Canada? Love your product but the shipping to Canada can hurt at times.

You want to talk about paying a lot of money for space in Vancouver? Expect around $3/sqft /month for shared studio space. Just trying to have enough room to hold all my leather and tools costs so much. Trust me, BC is not much better.

Vergez Blanchard sells what looks to be a very nice set. Honestly, I've been using the cheapo mini punches for like 3 years now without issue. Have you tried getting a different punch surface? and with most leather tools, you need to do upkeep with some fine jewellers files to keep them sharp!

any reason you didn't have the hole punches included into the die?

you can find used kingsleys on eBay for a good price pretty often, just keep looking!

waiting on 0.8mm tiger thread!

Just an FYI before you try to build or purchase anything. All pull-through splitters (homemade and otherwise) are really only meant for leather straps. Anything wider than 2" and youre going to have a very rough time. If you're looking for something to split down leather parts from 8-10oz, you'll need at least a crank splitter, if not motorized. Best option would be to have someone with a band knife splitter to take down the thickness for you.

Just curious how much it costs for you to send a package within the USA? Must be at least $5-10? This you are giving away for free for USA. I don't understand why USA sellers have a hard time taking that "free" cost off of international shipping. I have no problem paying more to have it shipped to me in Canada, but why does USA get free shipping, and international doesn't even get a discount? That's what so frustrating for Canadians.

Thanks for the reply. Considering I got them for nothing and have around 90 of them, even if they're worth a few bucks each, that's pretty great! I think I'll finish cleaning them up and try to sell as a full lot; hopefully someone can actually get some use out of them. The whole lot was in pretty terrible condition, rust about, just kept in piles. in a garage corner.

Hey, I recently bought a BUNCH of old machinery and supplies from a local (mom+pop leather company that closed doors 25+ years ago) He threw in these rusty stamps that I've managed to rejuvinate, and I was wondering if I could get direction on the best way to sell them/if there is anything rare/valuable in here? Is it better for me to sell singularily or as a lot? What is the approx values I'm looking at. I attached a bunch of photos. The stamped on leather are just the ones I've cleaned. Also, A few of the stamps were gold-anodized. I tried cleaning them the same way (rust remover) as I did with all of the chrome tools, but it seems to have taken off the gold coating. Is there any way that I can clean them without removing the coating? Does it hurt to not have the gold coating? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

I was lucky enough to get it! Shipping wise, it was only $30 within Canada. If I want to ship something similar from the States to Canada, 90% of vendors quote $100 plus. So this was a steal.

Where you using a metal hammer with it?