Tools and Equipment
Skiving Knife
SKYV-ing, rhyming with diving, not with living.
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A single-bevel blade set in a handle, drawn across the flesh side of a piece of leather to pare it thinner without weakening it. Skiving is done most often along an edge that will be folded, glued or lapped over another piece, so the finished seam does not bulk up.
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Introduced When (Circa)Not established by the sources consulted
Skiving as a technique is documented in ordinary saddlery and leatherwork of the twentieth century and is almost certainly older, but no source consulted gives a date for the knife itself. OriginA 1939 photograph from a Texas saddle shop shows hand skiving already an ordinary part of leatherwork, thinning the flesh side so two overlapping pieces, a belt or a watchband among them, join without extra bulk. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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