How to Use Beveler Tools in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So, one type of double action tool is called the beveler and here are a, actually four examples of bevelers here. Basically what a beveler is used for is for working along a cut that's already been made in the leather such as this. What the beveler does is it, then you make a decision, which side of the cut is going to be more raised and which side is going to be more depressed. What you do with the beveler is, if you take the toes of the beveler, that is the thick part, and you put it on the side that you want to be depressed part of the cut so, let's say we, let's say we want maybe this side of the cut to kind of give our, depressed. So, we're going to insert the toe of that beveler into that cut, so that it's right up against that cut, I made this cut previously with one of my knives and we'll talk about knives in a little bit. So we have that, we put that beveler in that cut, and now we use this double action, kind of this jack hammer action, allowing the tool to slide. I'm just going to tap, and we allow, we allow the toe of the beveler to follow that cut that we've made previously. So, if you see what's happening here and, this is just a first pass, but now you can we started to get some three dimensionality here. This is raised up and now this kind of has a beveled depression to it. So this is how bevelers are used. This is a large one and you can see that, I can, with sort of a large sweeping curve like this or any kind of larger line or large design, you can really achieve that kind of with a large beveler like this. But some, some designs are more suited for smaller beverlers."