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I have an old Landis 2 inch crank splitter. $350 and Ill ship it for free. Blade could use a good sharpening. PM or email joe.j.jones@hotmail.com

Heres a pic of the back side.

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Ok, make me an offer then... or open to some trading.

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I think you have a Skiver not a splitter. The blade will not cut level/flat edge to edge. Adjustments on the little table make it skive a different amount from the edge of the leather.

This is what it looks like to me. I rebuilt a 3 in 1.

ferg

I have an old Landis 2 inch crank splitter. $350 and Ill ship it for free. Blade could use a good sharpening. PM or email joe.j.jones@hotmail.com

Heres a pic of the back side.

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Would you mind telling me which part is the blade please? Thank you.

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Fifty years is right. This is a lap skiver used in making harness or what ever else you want to skive the end of. The end of a strap us stuck in from the side and the handle is turned to skive the material.

I have an old Landis 2 inch crank splitter. $350 and Ill ship it for free. Blade could use a good sharpening. PM or email joe.j.jones@hotmail.com

Heres a pic of the back side.

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Fifty years is right. This is a lap skiver used in making harness or what ever else you want to skive the end of. The end of a strap us stuck in from the side and the handle is turned to skive the material.

Actually the machine was designed for skiving shoe soles. I use one quite a bit in the saddle shop. Pretty handy tool.

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Does anyone know if it would fare as well on chrome tanned as it would on veg?

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niftycurly,

They will do firm chrome tan like latigo and some oiltans pretty well. Not so bueno on chap or softer mulehide. As far as splitter vs. skiver. If you level the blade they will do a level split. I was told that was the elusive "third function" of the 3-in-1 > cutting with the wheel, skving with the blade angled, and splitting welting material with the blade level. Anybody else heard that?

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I had just always heard them called splitters, wasnt aware you couldnt do one with the other. If the blade was sharpened, itd help with the chrome tan leather. I just tried it on 10-12 oz vegtan. Im secure enough in my sharpening ability to know if I tried to sharpen it, Id wreck it. The bevel angles and I dont get along real well ....

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Bruce,

The 3in1 I rebuilt had adjustments on it that would not enable flat even thickness skiing. The adjustment was actually eccentric. My understanding, when I spoke to a gentleman at Pilgrim, the skiver was intended for shoe work, explicitly the sole. That of course doesn't mean it couldn't and hasn't been used otherwise.

The unit I rebuilt was a Landis.

ferg

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niftycurly,

They will do firm chrome tan like latigo and some oiltans pretty well. Not so bueno on chap or softer mulehide. As far as splitter vs. skiver. If you level the blade they will do a level split. I was told that was the elusive "third function" of the 3-in-1 > cutting with the wheel, skving with the blade angled, and splitting welting material with the blade level. Anybody else heard that?

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