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Just elevated my swear word vocabulary

This is what happens when you’re feeling over confident in you skiving chops - at least I know my sharpening skills are solid.

Was excited to discover hand skiving this wasn’t as difficult as expected despite the canvas backing and copious amount of PVA glue. Things were going amazingly well until they weren’t- sliced clean through my gusset. Had myself a little tantrum followed by panic that I wouldn’t have enough material to make another. Thankfully I did and you can bet I will be much more careful skiving the next one.

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Leathercraft Masterclass

Sep 30

Yes, it happens unfortunately. You may have better luck on the next one if you perform a shallow skive on the reinforcement first, then skive the leather on the next lap around. The tricky part can be the glued canvas requiring much more pressure than the leather to cut, then there's a sudden release of tension afterward, which has your blade cutting the leather too fast to control.

herchmerquad

há 5 dias

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Managed to redeem myself - I was attacking the canvas at too aggressive an angle initially which resulted in the error. My thinking was if I could cut through the canvas and the glue I could easily skive things down from there. When doing this with a shallower angle of attack I found I was really fighting with both canvas and glue. In the end, I used a wheel marking gauge typically used in woodworking to score cut lines in wood. The wheel blade allowed me to cut just through the canvas and glue making skiving much easier / faster. I obviously tested this on some of the cut off pieces first given I had no clue if it would work or not.