Hi all! I have my skiving machine for a couple of months now and after studying the video course about it for I don't know how many times I decided to finally try and split largers panels of leather with the machine.
But I wouldn't be here if I didn't run into an issue :)
There is no issue with normal skiving but when I try to split leather I always have visible lines on top of my leather pieces after trying to split them. They are most visible on the stiffer pieces I try to split. On softer leather the lines usually dissapear after a while.
At first I tought my presser foot wasn't exactly level with the knife so I tried again and again.. (Luckily I have alot of scrap leather). But even when I adjust the height of the presser foot so that it doesnt take off any material I still have the lines on the leather:
I think there might be something going on with the presser foot. It looks like the shape of it does not match the shape of the knife exactly.
Does anyone else have this issue? Any Ideas to find out the exact issue and how to solve it would be much appreciated.
I'm not sure if I ever heard this a while ago, but I think i remember my footwear teacher saying he uses electrical tape underneath the foot to stop it marking, now i'm not sure if I am getting the story wrong, but who knows it could be right!
I have the same issue, the only thing that i was able to split without the lines showing was goat sully. The rest is catastrophic.
I noticed the same "Presser foot shape not 100% same as the knife" problem, but I do not think it is from that. It is from the extremety of the foot.
I know lots of people put a teflon tape on the foot to remove marks.
I have been thinking about getting a foot specially for splitting pannels and have the extremety rounded, a lot, it will reduce the true splitting capability of the 50mm foot to about 35mm maybe, but it would in theory help with the line issue as the foot is lifting from the corner in a much much more gradual way. But, i am still awaiting for my new 50mm foot to be delivered.
Anyone had any luck fiddling around with the foot?