I thought it would work. So I asked my friend who has taught leathercraft for 20 years and he told me 1, "An orbital/vibratory sander does not move far enough to effectively pull the fibers loose. A belt sander will work very well and if you are not careful tear the leather up." 2, " My splitter has a small blade so if I need to skive a larger area I use a well honed wood plane to thin the leather. Both of these methods work much better if you have a helper to hold the leather for you."

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You used a finish sander, designed to remove material very slowly. You are on the right track, just the wrong type of sander.

You're going to get a hell of a lot better results with a bench mounted belt sander. That's my primary means of skiving leather down. Don't have the money for a splitter and screw hand skiving it. Gets better results too.

You just discovered the reason leather is the protective riding garment material of choice for motorcyclists the world over since. well, forever.

Damn man would have thought that would have worked too guess you got to get one of those spliter things you mentioned good luck with your project and I hope you post videos with the progress cheers

I have to thin leather out in areas that it's impossible to get a machine or to with with a skiving knife properly, I end up using a dremal, it does the job but it takes a long time and it's really messy.

I tried this using my power file which is pretty much a hand held belt sander, with double sided tape to hold it to a piece of board. It worked great, thanks for the video because I probably wouldn't have tried it otherwise.

you may have solved another problem for me...I want to make a "rough out" holster but the leather I want to use is really too smooth. I've been thinking about a way to make it more rough..I'll have to try this. thank you ....

Hand sanding works well for small pieces. You may have better luck with large sheets if you used the orbital and then used a wide skiving blade just to knock off the fibers before repeating that process.

Yup, tried that myself with the same result.

Just used a belt sander with a 60 grit to thin belt where buckle goes. Worked fantasic and fast. Made a hell of a static particle mess that went everywhere, but shop vac took care of that.

I use a Rasp Plane. Works very well.

Can you sand the rough inside of a leather gun holster to make it smoother?

Thank you sir..this was good experiment..im from india.

Sanding leather does work. You need a heavier grit.

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If there is a need to thin the leather, I use a skinning knife (curved blades work better than a straight ones for leather). Keep the blade sharp and it will do its job nice and safe.

Interesting vid. I've tried the same, same result. However sanding edges/cross sand work pretty well.

Interesting idea.

Angle grinder and flapper disc.

Good to know...Good stuff...

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Lol. Nice experiment

You can hammer it thin.

try a plane, lightly dampen the side you want to skive

Use an orbital sander that is good for wood only

I use a belt sander

I think a rotary sander would do the work rather than the palm sander caz it just goes back and forth

That answers that question then

Use a Dremel

What happened to the buffalo scabbard bud ?? Did you ever make it ?? Would love to see it .

This vid convinced me to give up on the thought of sanding. I tuned in because I believe some holsters are made from the split off flesh side of leather, then sanded smoother and packed with grease. Pretty sure that's what some are doing. BTFOOM. (Beats the **** Out Of Me).

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