- Are you saying that your skiving machine won't split already thin leathers correctly?
- Do you mean it won't split thicker leathers below a certain point?
- How thin are you trying to split to?
The ridges are likely because you are trying to split down vegetable tanned leather. Any leather that can be marked, will be marked. No reliable cure as of yet.
Sometimes bevel skives wont work that well. if I need to skive it out to zero, from 0.5mm to almost zero. Or at times just splitting it down from 0.8 to a 0.5 it won’t split even across the panel. Itll
To skive to zero, even near it, you'd need to finish with a paring knife, a machine doesn't have that level of precision. At least not one that I've seen.
With those numbers, you've really reached the limits of a bell knife skiver for most types of leather. Taking off 0.3mm is unlikely to be consistent, you'll need to start higher.
Remember, the bell knife skiver was designed for fast consistent thinning of leather along the edges, splitting is merely a handy little hack with a lot of limitations.
Thank you for that clarification Philip ! That puts things in a new perspective
Hey Kallused,
Just a few questions:
- Are you saying that your skiving machine won't split already thin leathers correctly?
- Do you mean it won't split thicker leathers below a certain point?
- How thin are you trying to split to?
The ridges are likely because you are trying to split down vegetable tanned leather. Any leather that can be marked, will be marked. No reliable cure as of yet.