OK. I decided to get one to try it out. Took about a week after shipping date to arrive, so wasn't on a slow boat from China. It comes completely disassembled. The instructions in the box are all Chinese. After assembling it, I found a download with English instructions. That would have been much more helpful! Instructions It skives soft leather fairly easily. On vegtan, it kept digging in and cutting right through, making a useless mess. The blade has too high an incline wrt the lea