I agree.....we'll see if more folks have these issues, it might become Eskimo's nightmare product if it dances around cutting things......I believe I have 60 days to return it if I hate it.....hope to get it shipped fast and take it on the ice....the ice here is like a mirror right now.
The Eskimo pistol is basicly a flat blade shaver ($40 mora) design that Eskimo updated to the lightweight composite material.
There are a few things you can do to help prevent it from walking on the ice when it comes to the flat blade shavers, and if you do them you should be fine.
1st always make sure you have sharp blades. With the flat blade shavers the cut isn't very agressive. So you want to make sure the blades are sharp and will grab. Really dull shaver blades will just spin on the top of the ice and never grab to cut regaurdless of pressure applied.
2nd always make sure the very inside tips of the blade cutting edge towards the center are not chipped up, banged up, or rounded off on the very edge. This is what needs to grab to get the blades cutting.
3rd they cut great on a drill. Liked my Eskimo flat blade shaver. The trick was to apply a good steady down pressure to start the blades cutting, then once it started back off the pressure.
