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     Glenn Tinkerer Username: Glenn Post Number: 127 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
To do the job properly you use a paring knife. Any book binding supply house will sell you one, however they are easily made from a 9 inch length of industrial hacksaw blade. Grind off teeth and then grind a 4 inch length at one end down to a point. Sharpen the sloping edge by grinding a wide bevel (at least half an inch) on each side. You then just gently cut away the excess thickness from the back of the piece of leather, just hold the leather over a narrow (4 inch) piece of wood, clamped to the bench. I regularly use this method to thin large pieces of leather, when binding books. As an alternative it is possible to use a small spokeshave. Use the type sold by model shops, that use a razor blade as the cutter. |