Spoke Shave Skiving?

[Lil Doodler]

Howdy,

I've read a lot of your posts about splitting, and skiving.

Want to say thanks for all the information you've made available!

Recently I've come across another method for skiving used by book binders. They call it Paring.

Some of the tools the book binders use are the same as leather workers, but there are a couple different.

Have you heard of modifying a wood workers spoke shave for leather?

Does anybody here do this?

I thought ya'll might find these interesting.

HIstory

http://jeffpeachey.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/towards-a-type-study-of-stanley-151-spokeshaves/

Modifying a spoke shave for leather

http://www.talasonline.com/photos/bookbinding/spokeshavearticle.pdf

Some bookbinder knives / tools

http://jeffpeachey.wordpress.com/knife-catalog/

[bruce johnson]

Thanks for the links! Interesting reading. Now I have a use for those pesky metal shaves that find their way to my shop. I have used the wooden spoke shaves both to true up edges and also to do long skives similar or equivalent to paring. I also have a few paring blades I reserve for thinner and softer leathers. I do better with the blades for skiving, I can control them and the leather betters than I can with a two handled wooden shave.