Originally Posted by
12stones
Absolutely can with some care. Take it slowly and only remove small amounts at a time and you should be fine. Worse comes to worst, you end up having to replace them which was your original plan anyway. ;)
The first 60 secs of this video will show you how easy it is using two inexpensive hand skivers:
https://youtu.be/qubdzTIBLyw
Thanks!! That looks easy (when they do it).
Good point that only the portion that goes through the buckle needs to be thinner, no reason to skive the whole length of the strap.
BTW during my year-long work-furlough I did some leather projects. For each operation I had to watch YouTube videos on how to do it and what tools were needed, leading to numerous Tandy Leather trips. This project fits in well with those.
(Offtopic but you're a leather person, at top is a screen shot from a TV show, at bottom is my reproduction.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 12th September 21 at 06:22 AM.
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