Where do you buy pigskin that thin?
I have half an acre of eland that is a beautiful maroon/brown, but it's about 0.055-0.065" thick.
Brent, I buy most of my pigskin at Tandy. I have a store about 1 1/2 hours from me so its a reasonable drive. I prefer to pick out my own hides so I can avoid as many blemishes as possible and to check for stretch. Btw, a hide will generally allow just the bottom third to be used. That is unfortunate because the best looking part of the hide and blemish free is the top two thirds.
I do have a leather skive to thin the leather and I use the skive to even the thickness to about .020..... thin is good. I've tried the skive on the upper leather with limited success, it just does not stretch as much.
You may have success with your Eland if you can thin the belly part to a reasonable thickness.
Hope this helps!