leather splitter

[Luke Hatley]

Question... just how good of a tool is the Tandy Proffesional Leather Splitter.

The price is $299.00 for club members.

[bruce johnson]

Luke,

I had one and it was adequate. The blade was pretty OK, a little bit steep on the bevel, but held an edge alright. The issues were that with the depth guide on, it wouldn't raise the roller up closer than 5 oz thickness to the blade. The roller/blade was not an exact marriage. One side was a bit lower. on narrow straps this was not an issue for me. I sold it to a machinist and he tuned it up by grinding down the area the blade seats on to split thinner and evened up the blade-roller relationship. He also did some fine-tuning on the guide.

If you are dead set on that pattern of splitter, aren't a machinist, and want new, I'd save another couple hundred and buy a Keystone from Campbell-Bosworth. For the $300, you can find some good used Osborne 84s or other old workhorse models from someone.

[Duke]

Question... just how good of a tool is the Tandy Proffesional Leather Splitter.

The price is $299.00 for club members.

luke, you are a business arent you? if so, why are you paying club prices? you do enough leather work, that you should be getting business prices. talk to your tandy guy about what you need to do to get on as a business. btw, for the money, I like the hi tech splitter.

[Luke Hatley]

bruce ........duke.......thanks so much for the information.

[rcsaddles]

I have a six inch splitter that looks exactly like the Osborn 89 i believe it is. The blade is stamped A. E. Atkins. A neighbor wants to sell it so I told her I would try for her. I had the blade sharpened and the thing will split leather, or rawhide.

She wants $150 for it. I would buy it but I already have an 8 inch and a 12 inch splitter.

If interested, let me know. Shipping will be actual cost and I don't need to jack the price for "Handling".

Joe