ron_m80
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Everyone,
I have been building up tools for awhile now. I have been working on some other stuff as well, all leading towards turning orange hopefully (only when the time is right though).
I noticed a leather working tool that I might like to acquire, but I cannot find one. I don't know the name of it either.
I noticed it in a Sullivans leather shop photo while looking through Randall Made literature. It is some kind of leather shear (splitter). I purchased a 12oz. hide awhile back and noticed that there is really good quality thick leather there that you won't get with a 7-9oz. hide purchased for just that thickness. What is the name of that tool that basically splits the rough back away from the better dense hide underneath?
If anyone has that tool, can you post up detail shots of it, the mechanism, the drive rollers, the table side, the cutting edge, and the hand wheel? I might have to make one of my own if I cannot find an old one to buy.
Thank you much.
-Ron
I have been building up tools for awhile now. I have been working on some other stuff as well, all leading towards turning orange hopefully (only when the time is right though).
I noticed a leather working tool that I might like to acquire, but I cannot find one. I don't know the name of it either.
I noticed it in a Sullivans leather shop photo while looking through Randall Made literature. It is some kind of leather shear (splitter). I purchased a 12oz. hide awhile back and noticed that there is really good quality thick leather there that you won't get with a 7-9oz. hide purchased for just that thickness. What is the name of that tool that basically splits the rough back away from the better dense hide underneath?
If anyone has that tool, can you post up detail shots of it, the mechanism, the drive rollers, the table side, the cutting edge, and the hand wheel? I might have to make one of my own if I cannot find an old one to buy.
Thank you much.
-Ron