Skiving Failure

[Red Cent]

Placing the edge to be skived even with the edge of the block towards you will help. I can get a quick feather edge by pulling through to me and over the edge. Safety skiver.

[Neillo]

The block planes are a great idea if you can keep them nice and sharp, very inventive of you guys!

I normally use a 19mm Pfeil Violin knife, it was lying around my workshop not being used and i'm glad i picked it up instead of buying an english paring knife.

Saved me a lot of money and it slices even fuzzy grain leather very nicely! Here's a pic:

[Palermo]

The bookbinders mainly use a bench top parring machine

[BDAZ]

FYI for the US guys..Harbor Freight has their belt / disk sander on sale for $59, less than half of what I paid for my last swivel knife..

Cya!

Bob

[Tree Reaper]

Renee;

They work very well for items like belts.

I clamp one end of the belt to a board and shave the far end.

If you have trouble and aren't getting good results let me know and I'll help you with it.

Kevin.

[Crimson Hides]

Think there are already many good advise given by the more experience leather crafters.

Just want to add that I like to use a block of glass as backing when doing skiving. Find that the edge is more consistently thin when doing so maybe due to the smooth and even surface of glass.

[MY63]

Hi Guys

I am new here I have some experience with veneer I have a very small block plane that uses razor blades so no problems with sharpening.

it is called a David razor plane in the UK less than £10 not sure on availability elsewhere.