I don't know if its a trade secret, or anything, but I would love to see a writeup or pics of how one is installed.
Installing a single piece leather wrap.
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No Secret....
Not that I know of, you can buy an Unique product jig and comes with instruction "HOW TO" pretty much you are on your own trial and errow, I did make a lot of mistake in the beginning have to practice a lot to make it perfect. Hope this help you.
Kenny
Not that I know of, you can buy an Unique product jig and comes with instruction "HOW TO" pretty much you are on your own trial and errow, I did make a lot of mistake in the beginning have to practice a lot to make it perfect. Hope this help you.
Kenny
Impact Blue said:
FLYINGSNAIL said:
Thanks, Kenny. I am very interested in how the skiving (thinning) of the leather, especially around the edges, are done.
I'm just playing around with a piece of leather well above 0.025.
This website may help you, Google search under (skiving machine), some people use belt sander or just use sand paper with a squared wood block and sand the back of your leather piece.Impact Blue said:
http://www.melaniemachine.com/split.shtml
Impact, FYI, "skiving" refers to thinning or bevelling leather at the edges of the piece. "Splitting" refers to reducing the thickness overall. Many experieced cuemakers confuse these terms and refer to splitting as skiving, but this is not correct. You'll need a stiff sanding block, a flat surface to work on, a set of calipers, and lots of patience to have any success at working your piece of leather down by hand. Good luck and let us konw how you make out.
Martin
Martin
Impact Blue said:
Hmmm...I refer to skiving as thinning the whole thickness of the leather. Never knew there was a difference...jazznpool said:
True Statement...
I saw a skiving machine and it only bevelling leather at the edges about 1/2 wide surface area, if you need to skiving it down on those leather wraps is going to take a long time...jazznpool said: