I use a Zebra Z grip pen to make turned pens, Have you tried this methed?

I use a Zebra Z grip pen to make turned pens. Have you tried this method?

I bought one for my wife and the width adjustment slides easily after the knurled tightening screw is loosened. Maybe something is binding yours to make is hard to slide.

SLAYYYYYEEEEERRRRR

Tip, use mineral oil

Did the same, but did flatten the back first. As it had giant high spots. It is essential to be flat to get the best edge out of it. Works like charm. Only doesn’t hold its sharpness as long as better graded steel would, as it remains chinesium steel.

I just got a amazon skiving knife. I sharpened it right out of the box but I have to keep sharpening it. It will not hold a edge. I am actually thinking about getting it to red hot and retempering it to hold a edge better.

Thank you for your work and honest recounting of how you arrived at success. It could have been my story too, right down to the scar we both have at the root of our thumbs. 😜

Where did you buy the custom made ones from? I didn’t hear the name of the company. Thank you.

I wish I hadn't watched this - now i need one!!😂

A draw gauge does the same. I prefer a draw gauge.

Can you make shoe laces with these? nice tool.

That workshop is a bloody disgrace. You should be ashamed of yourself. How the hell do you find anything ? What is even worse you took a video of it. We cannot complain about your standards when you even don't have any.

Thank you for your time.

Why not test it by actually trying to skive instead of slicing?

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! ❤️🤘

Push hedge when you sharpen and drag it when you strop

Thanks for the step by step. I feel that I can do one now without trouble.

I see you follow the AFS shop philosophy like I do. Any Flat Surface

So what dye is being used and then you dilute the dye you buy even further and you do this with all dye?

Bought one, OMG dull as crap and I use one a lot

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

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.

Great video. This is the kind of content beginners like myself need to see. I’ve been crafting with leather since 1978. 🙂

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 would have preferred to see you actually skiving with it.

that was really interesting!

What kind of adhesive do you use to keep the sandpaper on the wood

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.

You could also do both. One of each for a multi colored approach.

What do you use to dilute your dye with? Regular alcohol?

This is genius

How about your bottle? Where is that from?

Where is the needle tipped applicator bottle from?

Making a new thing is the fun part of leatherwork. Experimentation always leads somewhere new.

Where did you get it?

Lowes sells rubbery garage floor mats that would work too.

A good technique tip: Go both directions when sharpening on stone or steel. Only Pull back when stropping.

What chuck is that?

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!

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.

Great video man! I’ve always used a thin sheet of Mylar material. Sand the front and back with 320 grit and cut into strips.

Where did you get that purple scale from?

That’s a nice pen. The shape is 👌

Yellow 👌

Great to see you back Mike

I would really like step by step videos I’m going to try making my own blanks and would love more step by step videos

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 KZbinrs is what I would call an unconscious disregard of the viewer's time: way too much babbling about nothing.