Hi guys,
Don’t know if any of you have one of these mini skivers and whether you could provide some feedback concerning its performance...
I am interested since long on it but don’t know how good (or bad) it is. And, I wouldn’t like to spend a lot of money to find out that it doesn’t fulfill my expectations...
Your comments are really much appreciated!
Cheers!
-Maru Tuchi
Thank you @Daniel Wøhlk !! I will watch it now!
I made a video about it some time ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NCq_u973c4&t=25s
@Maru Tuchi Remember this? :D
https://www.leathercraftmasterclass.com/forum-1/help-from-the-community/nippy-digital-skiving-machine-small-problem-d
So the price is about $2,500 all in. Has same name description but looks very small. I saw the related post here, also.
I got a skiving machine from Cowboy's Chinese manufacturer, delivered to Bahrain, for about half that. I don't have the papers with me to be exact. I would contact Jane@automatic-sewing.com, if interested. They didn't have a distributor in my area so I was able to deal directly with them. It left all the unboxing and setup for me to do which was a great learning experience, i.e., difficult but not impossible, trying, patience straining, frustrating. Our video course it the best resource for that, by the way. I probably have it memorized. The documentation with the machine would best be described as accurate but sparse.
I've been pleased with the operation of the machine and it seems identical to the one in Philip's video course on skiving machines. The setup, adjustment, operation, appearance of all the mechanism and parts is identical. The only issue I had was that I had to modify the motor mount (put some [a lot of] spacers in to get belt tension) to fit the servo motor it came with instead of the clutch motor it was apparently originally built to hold. Simple fix though.