Hand skiving help

[immiketoo]

 

Here's the tool I use.  It works until I can afford a bell skiver.

[chrisash]

I use the Osborne safety beveler and find it very easy to control and get a great skive

One thing I learnt from others was to work down a edge by doing small skives at 90 degrees to the edge rather than trying to run the blade down the edge lengthwise. that is if you have a edge say 6 inches long and half a inch wide, skive lots of small half inch skives rather that trying to do a long skive along the whole 6 inches

Experts can use round knives and other ways but that is a long term plan which only comes with loads of errors and time

[wrz0170]

1 hour ago, chrisash said:

I use the Osborne safety beveler and find it very easy to control and get a great skive

One thing I learnt from others was to work down a edge by doing small skives at 90 degrees to the edge rather than trying to run the blade down the edge lengthwise. that is if you have a edge say 6 inches long and half a inch wide, skive lots of small half inch skives rather that trying to do a long skive along the whole 6 inches

Experts can use round knives and other ways but that is a long term plan which only comes with loads of errors and time

Thanks!   I wound up getting a 3/4” skiver from Lisa Sorrell from a recommendation a few posts up. It was like $30 and shipped quickly.  Out of the box it was sharp.  But me being me,  clamped it on my Wicked Edge system and got it where it pushed cut quite nicely.  Now I just strop using horse butt hide after several cuts to maintain the edge.   I also do the 90° to the edge.  While I still have a bit to go, I feel I cut my learning curve significantly.   You hit a key point.  The ability to control it.  MUCH better than the Super Skiver.  That thing can sit in the bag and collect dust.  

Have a round knife as well from Weaver.   Learning to sharpen it.   Long way off from skiving with it but I will get there.  I’m on the waiting list for a Knipschield round knife  Maybe by time it comes next year, I might be able to do something with it other than look at it

William

[immiketoo]

Now your cooking with gas!  Lisa sells a good knife.  The super skiver makes a good doorstop   I kid.  There ar those that can wield that think like magic.  I am not one of them.

[wrz0170]

29 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

Now your cooking with gas!  Lisa sells a good knife.  The super skiver makes a good doorstop   I kid.  There ar those that can wield that think like magic.  I am not one of them.

I quickly found I am definitely not one to wield one like magic or even remotely close so it.  It may wind up as a door stop! Lol.  

What I like about Lisa’s skiver, the control and I can skive from a definitive line to the edge.  Very neat. Very clean so far.  I can’t rip long strips with it yet, so not the fastest. But it’s getting the job done hitting it at 90° angles.   I will most likely invest in the 1” version.  

[immiketoo]

Clean is the most important.  Speed will come with practice and strength development.  Its an unusual motion.  And hey, everyone needs a doorstop!

[Bodra]

Most beautiful skiving i've ever seen! Hope you learn something from video.

 

https://youtu.be/mtdpJS6mJpY?t=109

 

Edited October 3, 2018 by Bodra

[wrz0170]

2 hours ago, Bodra said:

Most beautiful skiving i've ever seen! Hope you learn something from video.

 

https://youtu.be/mtdpJS6mJpY?t=109

 

Thanks for the video!  Dude has some mad skiving skills.  Sharp knife doesn’t hurt either!   Aside from that, I learned a brilliant way of preventing my thread getting caught on my stitching pony!  Will be addressing that.  

[Aven]

I was taught to skive like the guy in the video and the way Lisa shows, working on a flat, smooth surface, (glass or marble works great), knife hand over the leather and the knife point on the marble.  Keeping the cutting edge at an angle to the work and smoothly, gently pull towards you.  If you keep the cutting edge angle  shown at 1:53 in the Kinnari video, its possible to get a good skive with a safety skiver.  You'll have to change out the blade often, but it will do a good job.  It takes a bit of time, blades and practice, but in the not so long run it's much cheaper to buy a good knife than 1000's of replacement blades for the skiver.

[immiketoo]

3 hours ago, Aven said:

I was taught to skive like the guy in the video and the way Lisa shows, working on a flat, smooth surface, (glass or marble works great), knife hand over the leather and the knife point on the marble.  Keeping the cutting edge at an angle to the work and smoothly, gently pull towards you.  If you keep the cutting edge angle  shown at 1:53 in the Kinnari video, its possible to get a good skive with a safety skiver.  You'll have to change out the blade often, but it will do a good job.  It takes a bit of time, blades and practice, but in the not so long run it's much cheaper to buy a good knife than 1000's of replacement blades for the skiver.

This.  My video is just showing the guy I sharpened the for that it works the way he uses is.  The technique is terrible, but he skives sandal straps on the sole while the shoe is still in the last.  He complained that the angle of the blade wouldn’t work for pulling it toward him.  I was just showing him that it would work.  Disregard the shitty technique.