Skiving machine over skives the leather (HELP)

[ChelseaThom]

Hi all, 

How do you prevent your leather from being over skived by this bit of the bell knife?

I circled it in the photo.

As you can see, I have my skiving width set with the guide against the pressure foot, but as I feed my leather through, the bell knife trims off more of the leather too, resulting in uneven skive.

It's like it got sucked in. Is this technique or something I can adjust?

 

I appreciate any help. 

 

Thank you

 

 

[mike02130]

If I understand your question, I would say that you need to lift the leather up from the knife.

[MtlBiker]

@ChelseaThom - Welcome to the forum!

I guess you're new to using a bell skiver, as I am.  And I've got plenty of problems figuring out proper adjustments on mine.  But...

I think in your case, it's a technique issue.  The part that should be getting skived is directly under the presser foot and the part that extends past the foot (in the area of your red circle) should be held up by you.  I would guess that your leather is fairly soft and that you're just letting it "hang" over the front.  You should be holding it up.  And guessing from your photo, it looks like you're set up to skive something like only 1/2" from the edge.  That's the distance (guessing) from the adjustable (silver) guide and the front of the presser foot.

Did you just get your skiver?  Was it set up initially by your dealer?

 

[ChelseaThom]

@MtlBiker Thanks so much for your advise!! Yes i'm new to using a bell skiver.

I got it not long ago. I changed the roller to a rubber one for soft chrome leather. The stone roller was too harsh and grippy and kept ripping my leather.

 

@mike02130 thank you!!

[MtlBiker]

1 hour ago, ChelseaThom said:

@MtlBiker Thanks so much for your advise!! Yes i'm new to using a bell skiver.

I got it not long ago. I changed the roller to a rubber one for soft chrome leather. The stone roller was too harsh and grippy and kept ripping my leather.

 

@mike02130 thank you!!

Your photo doesn't seem to show a rubber roller, only the standard presser foot.

And the problem you describe is similar to what I've got... but I think it can be solved by proper machine adjustment.  At least I hope so.  Where did you get a rubber roller?  Oh, wait a minute... are you talking about changing the feed STONE to a rubber one?  Or changing the presser foot to a roller foot made of rubber?  What made you believe the feed stone/roller was the issue and not adjustment?  And out of curiosity, what's the make of the skiver?