I would love to see your recommendations to skive leather effectively. But whole pieces. I can only get leather around 1.6-2mm in my country (I use only vegetable tanned) and to make wallets it can be quite painful and take a long time to skive with a Japanese skiving knife to make it 1mm or less. I just bought a large 10mm French edger that I think will help with skiving larger pieces. Any other recommendations ? I know about skiving machines but not a realistic purchase for me right now.
There’s also a manual splitting tool, which basically make leather very thin. I think you can get one on amazon for about 150 USD. This tool is usually used for making belts, since belts are made of thick leather. I don’t know if it will work well for wallets, but just a suggestion.
@@keirambelli6394 yes, I do know about that one. That's what I was referring to as a skiving machine. And as I said, unrealistic for me to buy it right now, hence looking for cheaper alternatives or the best hand tool for the job. I think a French edger might work, waiting for mine to arrive.
Bruno R. B. Silva then yes, a French edger is probably the best tool, but maybe you should try to find leather suppliers who have thin leather. What country do you live in? Because in America there are online suppliers that ship worldwide.
@@keirambelli6394 thank you ! I hope it works well. I'm from Brazil. Here we can only find veg tan for a reasonable price, natural. You can also find harness leather which is a veg tan of 3 or 4mm. I absolutely don't mind skiving it, I even prefer it to a thinner leather, since it can fit many projects. Skiving a 1.6mm leather to 1mm or 0.8 isn't that difficult, just time consuming, that's why I'm looking for other alternatives to the classic skiving knife.
Hey, Bruno. my suggestion for nice thin piece of leather is to order from US supplier who does splitting service. if you thin down manually, it takes too much time and increase chance of failure. I will cover about that in the future video.
I would also recommend a harder surface. And I haven't used it in a while, but I think I put one finger at the steel and one on the table to maintain the angle of the cut in both directions. Having the hand floating in the air makes it a lot harder to get a consistent result.
It's kind of a special tool with the blade at the side. But I would have a hard time with a skiving knife to create that right angle, which is great for joining two pieces. And also for rolled edges where both sides of the leather should look nice.
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Once in a while I would like to see you make a video making leather goods with all your tools 😬
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I would love to see your recommendations to skive leather effectively. But whole pieces. I can only get leather around 1.6-2mm in my country (I use only vegetable tanned) and to make wallets it can be quite painful and take a long time to skive with a Japanese skiving knife to make it 1mm or less. I just bought a large 10mm French edger that I think will help with skiving larger pieces. Any other recommendations ? I know about skiving machines but not a realistic purchase for me right now.
There’s also a manual splitting tool, which basically make leather very thin. I think you can get one on amazon for about 150 USD. This tool is usually used for making belts, since belts are made of thick leather. I don’t know if it will work well for wallets, but just a suggestion.
@@keirambelli6394 yes, I do know about that one. That's what I was referring to as a skiving machine. And as I said, unrealistic for me to buy it right now, hence looking for cheaper alternatives or the best hand tool for the job. I think a French edger might work, waiting for mine to arrive.
Bruno R. B. Silva then yes, a French edger is probably the best tool, but maybe you should try to find leather suppliers who have thin leather. What country do you live in? Because in America there are online suppliers that ship worldwide.
@@keirambelli6394 thank you ! I hope it works well. I'm from Brazil. Here we can only find veg tan for a reasonable price, natural. You can also find harness leather which is a veg tan of 3 or 4mm. I absolutely don't mind skiving it, I even prefer it to a thinner leather, since it can fit many projects. Skiving a 1.6mm leather to 1mm or 0.8 isn't that difficult, just time consuming, that's why I'm looking for other alternatives to the classic skiving knife.
Hey, Bruno. my suggestion for nice thin piece of leather is to order from US supplier who does splitting service.
if you thin down manually, it takes too much time and increase chance of failure.
I will cover about that in the future video.
I would also recommend a harder surface. And I haven't used it in a while, but I think I put one finger at the steel and one on the table to maintain the angle of the cut in both directions. Having the hand floating in the air makes it a lot harder to get a consistent result.
Hey! Thank you for the nice input! I will try with harder surface.
Normally I prefer japanese tools or Korean. But I think I have some chinese too. I think it can be cocobolo, maybe tinted darker? 🤔
I think it's Wenge. Cocobolo is nice. I love Japanese White Oak handle tools.
Nice looking tool.
whats the size of the one that you are using?
Victor man, it's in the video! 6mm
Seems like a skiiving knife is so much easier, accurate and easier to sharpen?
It's kind of a special tool with the blade at the side. But I would have a hard time with a skiving knife to create that right angle, which is great for joining two pieces. And also for rolled edges where both sides of the leather should look nice.
Cutting mat giving u inconsistency results...too soft. Better on a granite/glass/marble slab.
Hand tools are only as good as the operator Practice makes perfect
True!
Sorry, no tools from China.
michael smith nice troll
12346unknown yet you replied. Thank you for saying I’m nice.
lol!