Members Bodra Posted October 4, 2018 Members Report Posted October 4, 2018 8 hours ago, wrz0170 said: 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. After posting this video I tried his skiving technique with my skiving knife and I was suprised with result. I think I will be making new skiving knife similar to his, without wooden handle and with more shallow angle. I guess now its time to order some steel. Quote
Members wrz0170 Posted October 4, 2018 Author Members Report Posted October 4, 2018 4 hours ago, Bodra said: After posting this video I tried his skiving technique with my skiving knife and I was suprised with result. I think I will be making new skiving knife similar to his, without wooden handle and with more shallow angle. I guess now its time to order some steel. Nice! What kind of steel will you be using? Keep us posted. Quote
Members Bodra Posted October 4, 2018 Members Report Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, wrz0170 said: Nice! What kind of steel will you be using? Keep us posted. 80CRV2 Cheapest tool/knife steel I could find. Dont get me wrong here, it's not rubbish, it's a good steel, but it is cheapest amongst all other high carbon steels I found in EU shop. It's also known as L2 steel. I am not an expert nor have a lot of experience in working with metal so when I make a mistake I dont want it to be expensive I'll get a flat stock of 300*40*3.25 mm and start from there. I already tried making skiving knife and head/round knife and they turned out great. Not much fan of a head knife tho, but I really like skiving knife only downside is it looses sharp edge very fast and that's why I'll copy old design and make it with better steel, and make one with shallow angle we talked earlier to see how it performs at skiving. http://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/80052-handmade-leather-tools/?tab=comments#comment-534785 Edited October 4, 2018 by Bodra Quote
Members HardenGoods Posted October 4, 2018 Members Report Posted October 4, 2018 On 2018-09-23 at 10:35 PM, 480volt said: Bruce Johnson has a Rose, a Gomph, a couple Osborne Newarks and an unmarked on his site, currently. Always been happy dealing with him Me too! Quote
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