Skiving with wood plane

[waynebergman]

Wanting to share a skiving solution I have come up with and I am sure I am not the first to use this method.I work with leather as a hobby and have some nice tools but try and do without when I can. I have a very nice super sharp Lee Valley low angle plane shown in the photo also on one of the photos is the start of a hand stitched purse I am making for my wife. I have tapped a grey colored plastic spacer on the edge of my backer board so the plane stays level to the skive and am wanting. As its a straight out fold over for the skived area I want the skive to be the same thickness all along the edge and out to the end of the skived area. This is the first time I am doing a skive as other projects in the past have not called for a skived edge. This appears to work really well and easy to gauge the thickness uniformly. Thanks to this forum for all the great tips I have received during my hunt for a sewing machine.........wayne bergman

[AmericanSon]

Wow, you could give a class on sharpening blades...really incredible.

[AlZilla]

As I was reading your post, I was thinking "Yeah, but how are going to hold it taught?"

Cool solution. Thanks!

[waynebergman]

Hi Alzilla, the leather is held in place by clamping the straight edge panner guide (wooden scrap of maple shown in photo) tightly to the piece. I use the planner in one direction starting in the middle so i dont snag the starting edge and then I switch over and go the other direction always starting from the middle and skiving towards the outside. This is my first project using this method but it worked extreemly well in my opinion.........wayne

Edited July 2, 2024 by waynebergman
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[Wepster]

Smaller pieces like a belt end, try a japanese plane, they are set up to pull.

[AlZilla]

7 hours ago, waynebergman said:

Hi Alzilla, the leather is held in place by clamping the straight edge panner guide (wooden scrap of maple shown in photo) tightly to the piece. I use the planner in one direction starting in the middle so i dont snag the starting edge and then I switch over and go the other direction always starting from the middle and skiving towards the outside. This is my first project using this method but it worked extreemly well in my opinion.........wayne

Wayne,

Oh yeah, I could see just what you were doing to hold it down. Starting in the middle is a good point, though.

I think it'd be easy enough to tip the blade if you wanted a more traditional skive, too.

Most ingenious.

[CJJ]

I've been wondering if this would work.  now I know!  Thanks for sharing, very cool.