Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Interesting! I've never skived. Could the strap be skiven while still attached to the kilt? Sounds dangerous!
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