Skiving

Skiving leather - How to skive leather

When skiving leather, its edges are thinned to a certain desired thickness. In contrast to splitting, not the entire workpiece is flattened, but only the outer edges. The outer edges become thinner towards the edge. This serves to facilitate the folding of the edges as well as the seamability with other leather parts. The skiving can be done by machine or by hand by means of a skiving knife.

Endings of leather belts that need to be lengthened are sharpened to make the overlapping contact surface to be bonded larger.

In the case of dashboards, the leather is locally thinned on the reverse in order to create break-in lines for airbags.

Skiving tools

Half moon leather cutting knife: The half moon is a knife. It can be used in many different ways. Typical is the use for skiving cutting edges. There are many other kinfes for skiving leather which can be used.
Skiving machine: There are many different skiving machines for skiving edges or whole leather pieces.