Guess the machine

[Tigman]

Very pleasant !

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I suppose you'd need to be quite determined to get your fingers caught in that?

Oh, and up here at least, the term 'skiving' means something else altogether.

 

[Badger1bear]

I suppose you'd need to be quite determined to get your fingers caught in that?

Oh, and up here at least, the term 'skiving' means something else altogether.

Bunking off work ?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Bunking off work ?

Yep, or 'swinging the lead'

 

[TechnicAl]

It’s an edge skiver for leather.

Always thought I could recognise a skiver

 

[colnerov]

Always thought I could recognise a skiver

If you can spot them, they're not very good at it.

 

[Farside]

I never needed a machine for skiving, it came quite naturally.

 

[Badger1bear]

Yep, or 'swinging the lead'

I could be way off here but the term “swinging the lead” was it associated nautically when a sailing ship was traveling through shallow water and someone would swing the lead on the end of a rope to see how deep the water was under the ship. The job was easy to do so any jobs where you could take it easy and not work hard were given that phrase ??

Is this turning into “Call my bluff” lol

 

[Wendelspanswick]

There is one for sale on my local Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/309238209875950/
£750

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I could be way off here but the term “swinging the lead” was it associated nautically when a sailing ship was traveling through shallow water and someone would swing the lead on the end of a rope to see how deep the water was under the ship. The job was easy to do so any jobs where you could take it easy and not work hard were given that phrase ??

Is this turning into “Call my bluff” lol

You're right , the term is nautically based, but has passed into common usage in another sense. A quote from a random Google page:
"Swing the lead - shirk, skive or avoid work, particularly while giving the opposite impression - almost certainly from the naval practice of the 19th century and before, of taking depth soundings by lowering a lead weight on the end of a rope over the side of a ship. (According to etymologist Michael Quinion, the lead lump weighed nine pounds and had tallow - grease - on its base, which also enabled a sea bed sample to be brought up from below; the rope had colour coded markers to help gauge the depth.) It seems entirely logical that the impression would have stemmed from the practice of time-wasting while carrying out the depth soundings: a seaman wishing to prolong the task unnecessarily or give the impression of being at work when actually his task was finished, would 'swing the lead' (probably more like allow it to hang, and not doing anything purposeful with it) rather than do the job properly. A lead-swinger is therefore a skiver; someone who avoids work while pretending to be active."