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How to bevel tapered strips of leather close up hand shape, hotel room card and scalpel

How I Bevel Feathers, Tapered Back Strap 4-5 oz Veg tanned cowhide. Tapered strips are difficult to bevel quickly using a bench tool as you have to adjust the fence on the fly. This is the method I use to quickly bevel the flesh side of the strips using a firm plastic rectangle, a sharp blade, and a hand position to start peeling and hold everything the same and just walk backwards. There's a small cut in the card, this card piece is about 4 months old, the notch formed as I slowly cut into it keeping the blade in place. Your left thumb pins the strand keeping a constant tension in the strand as it rolls over the card surface, if the strand is long or if the friction is too high, you will melt the card. My left index finger is at the top under the card making a slightly rounded shape in the area being cut similar to a round dowel as the leather travelling thru the blade is stretched uniformly as it is cut. The general angle of the blade is near 30 Degrees. If you get much flatter it's very easy to catch the edge and cut through the strand and steeper doesn't create as smooth of an interlock or lay as the strand goes down. The knife is canted about 15 degrees putting the point of the bevel into the edge of the strip, if you change the angle of attack, you will change the bite, too thin it will skip out, too steep it will dig in and cut the strand. You can bevel 1/16" strips of stretchy goat hide or even narrow deerskin lace with this method as the tension at the blade union will be uniform and the lace will neck down while being cut returning to it's wobbly spongy wider relaxed state on the far side. the strand under tension will be straight and beveled accurately and will lay smoothly even when the lace itself looks weirdly uneven when relaxed. I've beveled 1/32" strips of kangaroo lace with this method, it's easier with veg tanned leathers though I prefer my derby single edge razors with super thin or super narrow strips as they glide through the leather as they are far thinner blades. Thicker leathers and even belts can quickly have the corners knocked back with the same methods but you have to be certain that the hand position is locked in and the angles are right to keep the chamfer consistant.