Having Trouble With Skiver

[Palomino]

Hi,

I am almost finished with my first major project and have hit a snag and was wondering if ya'll could offer some advice. I am working on a bracelet that is like a channeled english bridle browband. It has padded leather on the back and a piece of 1/8 inch thick veg tan leather with a cut out in the front...not able to upload photos at the moment, but I hope you get the idea. Anyhow, I am using square rings at either end attached with another small piece of leather for the clasp (like this) []-[], and I want to skive the ends of the leather before I sew them so that I can hand sew all three pieces together without it being bulky (like you do with belts). Well, I got a Tandy skiver in the mail today and it cuts really well...a little too well. When I tried it on a strip of the same leather I am using for the bracelet, instead of thinning it out a little, it chopped the whole end off. Is there a way to hold the skiver it so that it won't cut all the way through or is my leather too thin to skive? Any suggestions you may have to offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[gesa]

I may be caused how you hold the strip when you skive. I was tought to hold my hand low at the edge of the table. It will help to have firm and stable grip and the hand that hold the knife ( skiver or like I use a roundknive) will not interfere with the left hand.

I took two pictures without knife to show you the difference.

low at the edge

on the cutting surface

Gesa

[Palomino]

Danke fuer die gute Tipps!

I tried holding the leather the way you showed in the pictures and it works much better! Thanks again for taking the time to help.