Description

Cowboy 806 Manual Leather Splitter & Skiving Machine

The Cowboy 806 Manual Leather Splitter is a compact bench-mounted leather splitting and skiving machine designed for leatherworkers who need accurate thickness control without investing in a large powered splitting machine.

Simple, mechanical, and easy to operate, the 806 allows you to manually pull leather through a stationary blade to reduce its thickness or create a tapered edge. Its compact design makes it particularly well suited to leathercraft studios, saddlery workshops, hobby workshops, and small production environments where workspace and budget are important considerations.

Whether you’re preparing leather for a belt, strap, saddle component, or handcrafted leather project, the Cowboy 806 provides controlled material removal with a straightforward manual operating system.

Precision Leather Splitting & Skiving

The Cowboy 806 is designed to perform two important leatherworking operations:

Level splitting reduces leather to a more uniform thickness along its length.

Lap skiving creates a tapered section at the end of the leather, which is particularly useful when preparing belts and straps for buckles, hardware, overlapping joints, and other assemblies.

The machine’s adjustable blade-to-roller gap allows the operator to fine-tune the desired thickness and maintain consistent results across the workpiece.

Adjustable Blade-to-Roller Clearance

Two top-mounted adjustment screws allow the distance between the blade and feed roller to be precisely adjusted.

This gives the operator greater control over the amount of material being removed and makes it easier to achieve a consistent finished thickness.

For leatherworkers producing multiple straps or components, this adjustment system can help maintain greater consistency from one piece to the next.

Quick-Release Roller for Tapered Skives

The Cowboy 806 features a spring-loaded quick-release mechanism that allows the bottom roller to be lowered quickly.

This is particularly useful when:

• Inserting thicker leather into the machine
• Removing leather partway through a job
• Creating tapered belt ends
• Producing lap skives
• Preparing leather around buckles and hardware
• Working on shorter pieces that don’t need to be pulled completely through

Instead of feeding the entire workpiece through the blade, the operator can release the roller and reposition the leather as needed.

Compact Bench-Mounted Design

One of the major advantages of the Cowboy 806 is its compact footprint.

The machine can be mounted to a suitable workbench or table, allowing it to occupy very little workspace compared with larger industrial leather splitting machines.

Its rigid metal construction provides a stable platform while the manual design eliminates the need for an electrical connection.

That makes the 806 particularly practical for:

• Home leather workshops
• Saddlery shops
• Small leathercraft businesses
• Artisan studios
• Hobby workshops
• Mobile or space-limited workstations

High-Speed Steel 150mm Blade

The Cowboy 806 uses a 150mm high-speed steel (HSS) stationary blade.

The flat blade can be removed for maintenance and sharpening, allowing leatherworkers to maintain the cutting edge without requiring specialized industrial sharpening equipment.

A properly maintained blade is essential for producing clean, controlled splits and skives.

Smooth Feed Roller

The machine uses a smooth metal feed roller designed to provide controlled movement of the leather without unnecessarily marking the surface.

This is especially useful when working with suitable vegetable-tanned leather and veg-tan hides where maintaining a clean finished surface is important.

Built for Vegetable-Tanned Leather

The Cowboy 806 is designed primarily for vegetable-tanned leather and veg-tan hides.

It is important to note that this machine is not intended for soft upholstery leather. Its manual splitting system and blade configuration are best suited to the firmer leather materials for which the machine was designed.

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KEY FEATURES

• Manual, hand-operated leather splitter
• No electricity required
• Compact bench-mounted design
• Designed for leather splitting and skiving
• Suitable for level and tapered skives
• Adjustable blade-to-roller clearance
• Spring-loaded quick-release roller
• 150mm high-speed steel (HSS) blade
• Removable blade for sharpening and maintenance
• Smooth metal feed roller
• Solid metal construction
• Minimum skiving thickness of approximately 1mm
• Optimal splitting width of 10–50mm
• Ideal for belts, straps, saddlery, and leathercraft
• Designed for vegetable-tanned leather and veg-tan hides

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Important: The Cowboy 806 is not recommended for soft upholstery leather.

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APPLICATIONS

The Cowboy 806 can be used for a variety of leather preparation tasks, including:

Leathercraft

• Belts
• Leather straps
• Wallet components
• Bags and accessories
• Small leather goods
• Handcrafted leather projects

Saddlery & Tack

• Tack components
• Straps
• Bridle components
• Leather repairs
• Harness components

Precision Skiving

• Tapered belt ends
• Buckle attachment areas
• Lap joints
• Uniform thickness reduction
• Edge preparation

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WHY CHOOSE THE COWBOY 806?

The Cowboy 806 Manual Leather Splitter offers leatherworkers an affordable way to introduce precision splitting and skiving into their workshop without purchasing a large powered machine.

Its biggest strengths are simplicity, compactness, adjustability, and manual control.

There is no motor to maintain and no electrical connection required. The operator controls the feed manually while the adjustable blade-to-roller clearance determines the amount of leather removed.

For leatherworkers primarily working with vegetable-tanned leather and veg-tan hides, the 806 can be a practical workshop tool for preparing belts, straps, saddlery components, and other leather goods.

Its quick-release roller also gives the machine useful flexibility when creating tapered ends and lap skives—tasks that can otherwise be time-consuming when performed entirely by hand.