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Different makers have different quality, so try not to buy the low cost blades

Mi omputer is ot ood at speeling , it's not me

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1 hour ago, chrisash said:

Different makers have different quality, so try not to buy the low cost blades

Good to know. I've only gotten the knife, haven't bought any replacement blades yet.

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Did you by the osbourne / Tandy one or a clone some guy sharpening/ polishing on this video

These are good blades

http://abbeyengland.com/Store/CategoryID/441/List/0/catpageindex/2/Level/a/ProductID/75962 

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13 hours ago, chrisash said:

Did you by the osbourne / Tandy one or a clone some guy sharpening/ polishing on this video

These are good blades

http://abbeyengland.com/Store/CategoryID/441/List/0/catpageindex/2/Level/a/ProductID/75962 

Thanks for the links. Very helpful.

 

I got a clone from Wuta Leather. Skived like a dream for about 5 strokes, then rapidly got blunt.

 

I have a lot of unused razor blades from a sample pack that I bought a few years back. I might try cutting them to size first, like what some people have done here:

https://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/injecting-a-de-blade-instead-of-an-injector-blade.50874/

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I was on another thread and I was saying that I found a site called japangoods.com. They have leather planers that sound cool.

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I have stropped the tiny blades for the strap cutter. Just get some miniture pliers and drag the blades backwards across your strop.

Makes a lot of difference.

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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25 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

I have stropped the tiny blades for the strap cutter. Just get some miniture pliers and drag the blades backwards across your strop.

Makes a lot of difference.

Thanks Mutt, I'll give that a try. I don't have a strap cutter but from photos online, I think the skife blade is only about half the size of the strap cutter blade. I've been toying around (in my head) with the idea of using a binder clip to hold the blade (if it will clear the strop, I think not...).

 

I might just buy the Ryobi bench grinder in the video above and hope the wife doesn't notice. It is cheaper than some knives I have bought for this hobby, but a lot harder to hide a bench grinder in a drawer :P

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54 minutes ago, ScoobyNewbie said:

I was on another thread and I was saying that I found a site called japangoods.com. They have leather planers that sound cool.

I've bought both the flat and the curved Japanese leather plane (cheaper on Aliexpress). Not great for skiving. OK for beveling edges and maybe cleaning up edges if you don't want to sand your edges.

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Ah, thanks for the info.

What about their skiving knives? More of a push, then a pull, I thought.

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4 hours ago, ScoobyNewbie said:

Ah, thanks for the info.

What about their skiving knives? More of a push, then a pull, I thought.

Yes I have that as well. It is a push/slide/diagonal movement to skive with it. As far as I know, only the safety skiver and English paring knife can be pulled for skiving.

Note that I am not even remotely qualified to advise about skiving so don't take my word for it...

 

 

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