Cowboy Strap Cutting Machine

[Huntersilver]

Hi, has anyone had experience with the Cowboy strap cutter?

[Art]

That is the same AK-20 strap cutter that almost everybody sells. It works. It is heavier than hell.

Art

[Darren Brosowski]

Big, heavy, cuts leather like a hot knife through butter.

[Art]

It is the only machine that will do what it does as well as it does. It will go through any leather (I have had no reason to throw a stingray skin in mine though). The cutters eventually go dull after you cut about a mile of leather. I sharpen them for $5 each, don't know if that is a good price or a ripoff, they are a PITA to sharpen. Other than that, an eyeball and a little grease will keep it running for years. Bob can get you parts, I don't know what the collars and knives cost, maybe Bob can tell us when he gets back and gets a little sleep as that is a long slow ride from Prescott in his truck. If you have a lathe, you can make custom collars (spacers really) in no time. If you make belts and don't have one of these, you are burning up a lot of your profit in labor.

Honestly, that head is like a locomotive wheel, except awkward.

Art

[Huntersilver]

Seems like the cowboy has a few features the Cobra does not have like the light and the foot pedal?

[Huntersilver]

forgot to mention, I currently have the Weaver crank, but now that I am making a lot more straps. I need to have more control of the

side to have straighter cuts by using both hands,

[SaltyD0gg]

Recommendations on where to buy the CowBoy strap cutter?

[raysouth]

Best vendor that I am aware of would be Bob Kovar at Toledo sewing machine. Always good service and plenty of assistance when needed.

 

God Bless.

 

Ray