Over the past 2 years I've made the transition to a new specialty, leather. The sleaves name represents my exclusive use of Vegetable tanned leather. This process is less harmful to the environment and the workers at the tannery.
On this channel I'll be posting content about the processes I follow and the lessons I've learned. I'll be sharing templates for products if you're interested in making your own leather goods and will also be sharing reviews on products and tools that I find.
That’s a great tip. Thanks for the share! Have just received some that I bought from Temu (just to try as only now starting out) as don’t want to spend a huge amount initially. Awesome shirt BTW! ❤️🤘
Thank you! Still using the same Skiving knife to this day. I’ve had to strop it since putting this video up, but no further sharpening. Hope those ones you picked up work for you, I was the same when I first started, I’m upgrading some tools now and will probably upgrade my skiver soon, but getting nearly 3 years from an inexpensive tool like this works for me!!
It’s all Fiebing’s Leather Dye. I use alcohol or Fiebing’s Dye Reducer, if it’s all going to be used in a single day I use alcohol, if I want to store the dyes for later use I use the reducer.
I have one of those knives I scraped and sanded off the red paint from the handle to reveal the wood, which has quite an attractive grain, and now it is more comfortable to hold I sharpened the edge on progressively finer oil stones to remove & grind out the tiny secondary bevel to make one bevel about 5mm long; by hand without using a honing guide, then followed it with a strop It has turned out surprisingly well, very sharp, and has become one of my favourite knives, for both cutting and skiving
So many people still think just because it’s a $12 skiving knife there’s no way it can work. I agree that better steel will hold an edge for longer and may last for years with regular use and proper maintenance but you could buy 5 of these for the price of one high end knife and have them last nearly as long!
Well I feel so much better knowing there is at least one more wood worker out there that has disaster areas after their big marathon projects. Looking forward to the rest of the video.
I guarantee you and I are not alone in having a messy workshop after massive projects! I have since moved into leatherworking, as you’ll see in my newest channel content. This has reduced the size of messes I make now, mostly confined to a single workbench which can be cleaned up in under 30 minutes most of the time!
I have this Amazon "skiving" knife. Yesterday I spent almost 1 hour sharpening it and skive a piece of leather, but it doesn't work well at all. Of course, I didn't know the right way and used only leather strop with green compound, but still, I'm not happy. I don't wanna spend more money to buy one more sharpening/honing set and just think about buying a pro or almost a pro skiver. Could you recommend not a very expensive skiving knife? Thanks.
I’ve never searched for one, I’m actually still using this same one. If I were to buy a new one, at a reasonable price. I’d look on Etsy, there are some really amazing knife makers on there that offer some great skiving knife options. I’d also reach out to the leather suppliers, most of them will have tools available and would be able to offer options in your price range.
Hey Bryan! I just watched the video again as it’s been a long time since I uploaded, I’m not sure what part of the video your comment is referencing. The only sanding portion I could see was the final sanding of each piece and that was just me holding various grits by hand while the lathe was spinning. If you could provide me with a little more context I might have a different response…
If anyone ever tells you you have to drill on the lathe or even you should....show them 2 of the same style pen where one was drilled on the lathe and one was not and ask them to tell you which is which. There's no way to tell. It's a 50/50 guess, but no way to tell if was drilled on a drill press or on the lathe itself.
Thanks, don't have to worry about this any longer, but maybe someone will find your comment helpful, I know I would have back when I was still pen turning.
@@sleavesleather Thanks. Looking at picking up a chuck for my Shopsmith to make plugs. What lathe tool were you using? Looked like it had a replaceable tip?
It was an Easy Wood Tools carbide tip, there’s a few different versions out there depending on your budget. Just search “Easy wood tools” on Google and you should find various tools like this.
the problem is that your angle is way off. there is a better tool for this job specifically for skiving knives made by nattools, gets you a better angle than that. but it's not necessary, just doing it by hand will produce a better result due to better angle. also way too much polishing compound
Really good to see that it can be improved. I have the same knife but haven't used it long enough for it to be overly damaged yet. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. - Subbed!
Hey Chris!! Thank you for the comment and for subscribing. Happy to hear you found this useful. I’ve been using this skiver for almost a week now after sharpening and it still works as good as it did at the end of the video.
Wonderful job! Only suggestion would be rather than doing heavy sanding at the end of assembly, I would trim with a sharp knife to make the edges flush. This allows you to have a perfectly smooth edge, rather than with sanding where you have a fluffy mess that you have to go through 6 grits to get smooth and flat. Kind of like using a router to trim flush in woodworking, vs just trying to sand it flush with an orbital sander.
Appreciate the suggestion! I have a half decent skiving knife that should the trick - if not I'll use a fresh blade on my snap knife. I'll see how it goes and implement into my workflow if it works well for me. Might have to give a little room for this cut in the template.
mike hope u r doing well man i love the blank can u give me a shoutout on the next video im a new subscriber and woodturner wanna do a collaboration with me. chris
I like your format just the way it is -- without detailed nuts and bolts extraneous to the specific thing you're presenting. One thing that drives me crazy about some other RU-vidrs is what I would call an unconscious disregard of the viewer's time: way too much babbling about nothing.
I’m new to pen turning. So I appreciated the show and tell on the modified slimline. I am not a fan of the hourglass shaped pens just yet. So, I see this as something I will certainly do. Thanks for taking the time sir.
