This is a hand crank leather sewing machine. Much harder to hurt yourself / break it so it’d be a great item to let people use with minimal training. Amazon recently got flooded with them when a couple Chinese shoe factories offloaded their inventory.
I bought it a year ago and I’ve had a hard time motivating myself to setting it up but if I leave it in the leather area maybe someone a bit more handy can follow the youtube instructions to make a wood base + set it up.
And /or if i leave it there I’ll be way more likely to set up the wood base etc since the amount of effort to haul this hunk of iron would be greatly reduced.