How To Split Down Leather Evenly?

[917]

Hi everyone,

I've some questions about how to split down a piece of leather evenly.

I have a Nippy leather skiving machine and from some books i've read, it says you can split down a piece of leather using those machine.

However, no matter how many times and what ways I've tried (include changing to a wider foot for the machine), the leather was never evenly skived down.

I've attached a photo of it. From it, you can clearly see the uneven leather marks.

Is it because i've done it in the wrong way? Or the book is wrong, which means i can't split down a leather using the nippy skiving machine?

If the book is wrong, then are there any good machines out there in the market which can help split down leather evenly?

I only know about the Weaver Machine. Its good but expensive.

Thank you

[ramrod]

oh, not good. did you feed it all at once....or just skive a small amount at a time?

[917]

Lets say the leather needed to be thinned down is 10cm and the foot for the skiving machine is 3cm.

I had the leather run through the entire foot for 4 times to ensure the whole piece of leather gets thinned down evenly.

I'm not quite sure does this mean i skived it all at once or small amount at a time, as i did feed the leather through the machine for several times. And at the same time, the leather was fed through the entire foot all at once (instead of a small section of the foot) during skiving.