handheld belt sander or planer for reducing 10 oz veg tanned to 6 oz

[Windy]

Playing around just a minute ago with my Osborne U-shaped channel gouger , I got to thinking that someone ought to make something like this that can plane, gouge or scrape a 3"-wide section. Something like a spokeshave but with a basic depth adjustment.

I've never used a spokeshave. Do they have depth adjustments?

Ed

Ed ,

It sounds like you need a hand plane.You can adjust the

depth the blade will cut and since it has hand powered it is

easy to control. I imagine since mine will cut the hardest

wood with ease they should cut leather. Hand planes come

in many sizes and various blade angles. If I get the chance

this weeekend I will try my planes and let you know. I might

even try my cabinet scrapers on some leather to see how it

works. I can not help but feel somewhere in the history of

leather working there must have been a cross use of tools

between wood workers and leather workers.

WINDY .....Confused wood worker and leather worker.