Lace Cutting Question

[acox4t4]

Here are some more pictures of the next step that I took. I made a straight cut, trying to cut off the wavey and taking the lace down to 1/4 inch. So I guess I'm ready to bevel? My hands begin to shake at the thought of it. Is all still looking ok at this point? Bevan does it look like I'm setting up the tool right for the straight cut?? For some reason the side rolls up on me sometimes causing some spots to not look good and straight but hopefully if I can figure out how to bevel correctly then those spots I'm sure will be cut off (hopefully). I'm down to 1/4 inch wide, my goal is atleast 1/8 inch wide when all said and done.

Bevan thanks for taking the time to video tape for us. Greatly appriciated !!!

Edited May 18, 2011 by acox4t4

[acox4t4]

Here are some more pictures of the next step that I took. I made a straight cut, trying to cut off the wavey and taking the lace down to 1/4 inch. So I guess I'm ready to bevel? My hands begin to shake at the thought of it. Is all still looking ok at this point? Bevan does it look like I'm setting up the tool right for the straight cut?? For some reason the side rolls up on me sometimes causing some spots to not look good and straight but hopefully if I can figure out how to bevel correctly then those spots I'm sure will be cut off (hopefully). I'm down to 1/4 inch wide, my goal is atleast 1/8 inch wide when all said and done.

Bevan thanks for taking the time to video tape for us. Greatly appriciated !!!

[acox4t4]

Sorry didn't mean to post it twice.

Also wanted to mention to everyone the June 2011 Western Horseman has story on Dan Fowler and rawhide braiding.

[Bevan]

Here are some more pictures of the next step that I took. I made a straight cut, trying to cut off the wavey and taking the lace down to 1/4 inch. So I guess I'm ready to bevel? My hands begin to shake at the thought of it. Is all still looking ok at this point? Bevan does it look like I'm setting up the tool right for the straight cut?? For some reason the side rolls up on me sometimes causing some spots to not look good and straight but hopefully if I can figure out how to bevel correctly then those spots I'm sure will be cut off (hopefully). I'm down to 1/4 inch wide, my goal is atleast 1/8 inch wide when all said and done.

Bevan thanks for taking the time to video tape for us. Greatly appriciated !!!

Gday mate

your set up and technnique for the lace resizeing looks good

Your fence on the bevelling set up looks way to high , have a look at this link

I hope this will clear a few things up for you ,

Cheers

Bevan

www.bwrwhips.com

[rcsaddles]

This video made the difference for me. Now I know how to use this wonderful tool. My lace cutting went from ok to wow. Bevan, thank you ever so much, mate.

[Bevan]

This video made the difference for me. Now I know how to use this wonderful tool. My lace cutting went from ok to wow. Bevan, thank you ever so much, mate.

You are more than welcome Joe , Its just a matter of tinker-n with it and i am glad it helped , I hope Annette finds it as easy as you did,

Cheers

Bevan

Edited May 18, 2011 by Bevan

[acox4t4]

Just like normal some places it cuts good then it will cut like , cut good then cut like:asoapbox: . I hope these pictures will help ya see what the heck I'm doing wrong. As it is I think I'm going to have to try and cut it straight again to get the edges even since it looks like crap. With having to cut the bevel off now I'm going to be close to having wasted the whole hide, since its going to be cut close to or even less then the 1/8 inch that I need. .

Hopefully you can see in the pic's that for some reason the hide twist and in some cases will even bevel the top side.

This is how I got it set up to start the bevel.

Looks pretty good here.

Very crappy spot.

Another crappy spot.

I have more pictures that I can send ya via e-mail if you would like. Or hopefully these will pin-point what the heck I'm doing wrong. I used new blades, for the one side used the one blade and then put another new one for the other side since I just couldn't get a nice even cut.

How narrow can roo be cut and still be used?? LOL I've got to laugh so that I don't cry and put more soap in my mouth but see roo4u why I've been dreading this task of cutting lace. LOL

Dang it and I was thinking that I was finally going to make some lace for braiding a set of reins. This is going to make me not get much sleep tonight, thinking about what the heck I'm doing wrong.

Any help will be greatly appriciated. Thanks in advance.

And Yes Bevan I thought the video was great and easy to follow, and I thought that I had it set up like you had yours and as you can see it looks good in some places. So nothing wrong with your video, your tool, but totally its the dummy trying to use it, that just is not getting it right.

[roo4u]

did you stretch it first before trying to bevel it? it looks like maybe your into some soft spots, which are harder to cut...im using a bit different type beveler but the only time i have trouble with it is when i have real soft spots....i wish i lived closer so i could help you out....i know how frustrating it is when you cant make it work.

[KnotHead]

acox. I have cut my strings all the way down to 1.2mm and still been able to braid with it. I believe that 1.0mm is as small as anyone will want to go to with kangaroo.

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Edited May 19, 2011 by KnotHead

[Bevan]

Hi.....

The thick blade you are using in the first few images is not any good at all for the job, the finer one you have in the last is the one I use. I sent 2 fences one for thicker leather, bigger 'step' and one for thin, small 'step', I can't tell which you have in the image but for roo it should be the smaller 'step'. It also looks like the gap from the blade to the fence is too far, so take your fence so you are only cutting 1/2 a mm. about paper thin. - Dont try too much leather to start with, use scrap you have rejected. Position of thumb too needs to be looked at - mine is further back, take a look. One further point try to bevell just one side without taking off the width using one of the blades supplied.

So steps, stretch leather, cut to 1mm over end size, so if you want end result to be 6mm start with 7mm lace. set beveller up with correct blade and bring bottom of fence up to beez dick from blade, with blade touching top of fence.

I tend to want to know how you stretched it, there be could something in the above post that roo4u was onto.

beez bits.bmp

Edited May 19, 2011 by Bevan