How To Thin Out Leather For Strap

[biker55]

hello all, I have to make a small strap to secure my knife handle onto a sheath that I'm making. the leather is 8 oz tan leather so it's kinda thick. what tool or advice can you guys/gals provide me to accomplish this. I also plan on installing a snap rivet onto the strap. Thanks

[ramrod]

well, if you don't have a skiving knife, you could use a wood chisel. it should be extremely sharp.

[Chief31794]

You can skive it with several tools:

Bench Skiver (Best solution)

Hand Skiver (next best)

Round Knife (needs to be really sharp)

Block Plane (needs to be really sharp)

or buy some 4 or 6 oz leather, you can buy 2 square feet of Hermann Oak from SLC, get 4 oz, cut your strap from it, then use the rest to make wallet backs, money clips, checkbook covers, business card cases, phone cases, etc, etc,

Hope this helps,

Chief