troy Report post Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) Ye I know this is an old subject and been done to boulder dust, but my patients has gone; have tried making my own skiver using all sort of things and failure has loomed like a thunder cloud over all my attempts. What I am looking for is something small that can skive rawhide and leather lace of 6 to 2mm widths down to amounts of .2mm i.e at present I am cutting red deer rawhide from back to neck where the back is .8mm and the neck is 1mm thick, so I need something that will allow me to skive that excess .2mm off. Not much I know but it does show to my eyes. Any help of such a devise that I can buy would be great. Oh better add that I already have a means to cut lace and edge it mysek, so its just a skiver I need. cheers paul Edited August 24, 2012 by troy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
megabit Report post Posted August 24, 2012 You have a number of options. You could contact Bruce Johnson or leatherpounder and see if they have any splitters (they both sell them). Buy a Hansen String Cutter, it has features you already have but the splitter works real good. Or you could search ebay. I would avoid any solution that use razor or utility blades for splitting, they are to flexable to do a good job. You need something solid like the ones in the Osborne or Hansen tools. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
curlyjo Report post Posted August 25, 2012 I used the least expensive Tandy splitter for close to 30 years until I found an old Osborne #86 on ebay. Thats my 1st choice now but wouldn't hesitate to use the Tandy in a pinch. It just requires a sharp blade and constant sharpening. Check ebay and put in leather splitter and it will give you several options. Brad Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanthathide9 Report post Posted September 27, 2012 Referring to the blades used for a splitter I have seen planer blades that could possibly work. how would these work in a splitter design similar to the Hansen? If not can anyone point me in the right direction of blade choice Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites