Best skiving practices?

[Aven]

1 minute ago, battlemunky said:

Yeah, skiving is probably my least favorite thing to do in the craft. Its not easy and you could wreck what you are working on. Skiving is always so stressful.

Yup.  Totally.  If I haven't done any skiving in a while and I need to do some, I'll grab some scrap of what I'm working with or the closest thing I have in the scrap box and take time to sharpen my knife and practice skiving for 10 ~ 20 mins., whatever it takes for me to feel comfortable.

[MarkCdub]

The little skiving I have done has been with the tandy skiver with replaceable blades.  I had a hell of a time until I implemented lightly casing the leather before skiving.  It really allows the blade to do its job with less friction and gives you more control.  Just don't get it to wet or you open up a whole different set of problems.  Grab some scraps and give it a shot.  Also as others have said, stropping your bladed, even new ones makes a world of difference.  Good luck!

[arashikage]

Here are a couple of Lisa's videos on skiving. 

 

 

 

[Hardrada]

Ah-ha! That's one thing I'm doing wrong: too open an angle. Thanks, Arashikage; I had watched the first video but not the second one.

[arashikage]

1 hour ago, Hardrada said:

Ah-ha! That's one thing I'm doing wrong: too open an angle. Thanks, Arashikage; I had watched the first video but not the second one.

No problem. They helped me out so I figured I would pass them along.

[ehvhram]

Lots of great info the videos . Thanks for posting.

[PappyJoe]

Ok. I watched both videos. 

But my question is how much material do you remove?

[battlemunky]

depends on application. If you are working on inner panels for a card wallet, you can thin those down to next to nothing on the edges assuming you aren't making "T" pockets. It's basically for bulk elimination so you decide how much bulk needs to be eliminated in order to achieve whatever goal you are after.

[kiwican]

I avoided doing any real skiving for years. About a month ago I picked up my skivers again and practiced on using different angles of cut and depth to get what I wanted. As was stated. Super sharp blade is key. Then play with how deep or shallow you want to go. I'm pretty happy with my skiving now and actually build things that need it!

[Hardrada]

Found a couple more skiving resources:

https://youtu.be/GScGT44oPA0 (this is the knife I ended up getting, BTW).

https://youtu.be/0MRfEKqHt_g (I think this is a cool idea, but I've yet to try it).

Sorry, I dunno how to embed the videos; anybody knows?