YaeTek Spelucchino manuale in pelle con 18 lame

I’ve used it quite a bit since it arrived. I’ve watched the tutorials. I’ve seen all the theory. But it’s difficult to like.I’m sitting here with cut fingers from the blunt blade jiggling around, sore thumbs from keep having to tighten the fixing nut and all my trial leather bits either skived too much as I’ve cut through the whole thickness or seemingly thicker than it started!I know a good craftsman / woman doesn’t blame their tools. But I’m not a good craftsman so I can!I’ll persevere but am already looking at skiving machines wishing I’d kept the £120 this cost to put towards a proper one.

Once set up right, it works very well. Found that it works best with short shallow cuts. Do two to three passes at a bit of an angle. Work your way up to the full depth of the skive.

I hate hand skiveing, I'm just terrible at it, but cant afford a bell skiver yet. This thing came out of the box ready to use, just put the blade in and go. It's adjustable so you can easily adjust the hight and angle of the blade. So far I've only used it on some semi-firm 3-4oz to skive the edges of a turned bag, and it has worked wonderfully.

Upon assembling all parts, I attempted to skive the leather but it would cut it through. I thought that practice would make it better. I tried to adjust it but adjustments spring stopped working (or something broke), so I can't adjust thickness to cut the leather. At the moment it is good for nothing and I would be happy to send it back if this could be repaired or replaced.

Works ok on thicker leather. Forget using this on thinner leather (less that 3oz), it just chews it up or doesn't skive anything (in my experience). I can't seem to get the thing attached tight enough to my table to stop it moving when I pull the leather through. I dislike that it takes trial and error to figure out how much to skive, but unless I want to pay $2000 for a bell skiver, this little machine will have to do. I would rate it just ok.