nippy skimini Nippy Skimini - Portable Skiving Machine 95% Condition

[badaxjava]

Selling my Nippy Skimini, a compact skiving machine made in Japan, purchased in February 2025 and still under warranty until 2026.

The machine is in excellent condition and comes with the full official set, including:

✔️ Skimini Sharpener

✔️ Sharpening stone

✔️ 5 replacement blades

 

The machine is in excellent working condition. However, I’ve realized I rarely use it, so I’ve decided to sell it while it’s still under warranty.

 

I tend to need a finer skiving edge, so I often reach for my skiving knife instead. That said, I’ve used the Skimini a few times and can share some insights based on my experience:

 

Who This Machine Is Best Suited For:

1. Crafters working with leather thicknesses of 1.3mm or above.
   In my experience, the Skimini performs better with thicker leather. It skives cleanly when starting from around 0.4mm and up.
2. Vegtanned leather users.
   It skives vegtan beautifully. I’ve tested it with Badalassi Carlo leather, and the results were smooth and consistent. It can even skive down to 0.3mm thin. (I personally don’t use much vegtan in my products.)
3. Those who work with quality chrome-tanned leathers.
   It handles some chrome leathers well—Alran Chevre, for instance, skives nicely.
4. Anyone with limited workspace or who need to rearrange their setup often.
   At just 10kg and roughly A4 paper-sized, the Skimini is very compact and easy to move around.

Additional Notes:

• Skiving thinner leather (under 1mm) requires more precise adjustments—especially of the presser foot and knife-to-roller distance.
• There are YouTube tutorials showing how to dial in the settings. The guy demonstrates skiving from 0.8mm down to 0.6mm.

 

That’s a summary of my experience with the Skimini. If you’d like more details or specific photos/videos, feel free to contact me here or better to message me on Instagram: @adithpr

 

The official price is at ¥245,300 exclude shipping.

I’m selling it at $1200, exclude shipping.

This will be worth considering for you who’d like to try this Japan technology 😃

Thanks for reading!

Edited May 16 by badaxjava

[StillerOnline]

Hi. What is your asking price?

[Northmount]

21 hours ago, StillerOnline said:

Hi. What is your asking price?

His post says "I’m selling it at $1200, exclude shipping"

Note the seller is located in Indonesia.

[StillerOnline]

I totally missed that! Thanks. 

Shipping cost may be brutal though. 

[badaxjava]

On 5/23/2025 at 3:28 AM, StillerOnline said:

I totally missed that! Thanks. 

Shipping cost may be brutal though. 

Hi, shipping cost is about $200-300 depends on your location, about the same like from Japan itself. We can discuss that 😄

[badaxjava]

Bump and Reduced to $1000 😁

[mcmuck]

Hi There! is this still for sale?

Kelly McLaughlin

Medicine Hat Alberta, Canada

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