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c/bookbindersalex_hall91alex_hall9118d agoProlific Poster

Just switched to Japanese paring knives for leather

I spent 6 months fighting with a standard craft knife on my book covers. A guy at a binding workshop let me try his Japanese paring knife and the leather cut clean on the first pass. Anyone else find that the blade angle makes that big a difference?
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diana829
diana82918d ago
Six months of suffering when all you needed was a sharper blade angle, ouch.
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emmam67
emmam6718d ago
Did the person who sold it to you not mention blade angle at all during setup? What made you finally figure that out after six months?
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