How to Use Smaller Beveler Tools in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So, here you can see this curve I've done with the large beveling tool. Remember by letting the toe follow a cut that I made previously in the leather. But let's say you had a design like this where the cut is a little bit more complex and it's smaller and a lot of little more twisty turns, that would be really hard to do with the large beveller. So, as you might expect, there are smaller ones that can be used for that. So, here's a little teeny, tiny one. You use it the same way right, so the toe is the thick part the heel is the thin part so again, you just kind of put the toe right into the cut and you just sort of let it follow the cut kind of with that double action, that kind of jack hammer action, letting it sort of glide as you move, oops, I kind of glided it a lot there. You can do a lot finer work this way. See now I've beveled that little, tiny edge with a much finer tool. There are some even a lot smaller than that. This is a really small beveller, so something like this is good for doing maybe a little, tiny curve like, something like, let's see, like right in here. We'll do just a tiny little curve there. Actually that one I hit a little bit too hard. You can see the impressions a little too deep. But some of them, like this one is shaped so you can do tight little corners here. So, there?s a different type of bevellers. I mean, if you go to a leather supply store, they'll have different bevellers and they're just used for, the different sizes and shapes are really intended for I guess more complex designs where the large one can't really cut it any more. But they work the same way with kind of that double action and placing the toe into the cut and then sort of allowing the tool to move, kind of bounce up between each of your little hammer strokes, kind of like it started doing here."