I was wearing my PA ball cap, thought someone might have noticed and asked about it. Would've worn the t-shirt but it was a little chilly for short sleeves.
Mike you definitely want to work on a bow when you go to these events. Lots of good help to be had, just put a bow on a tiller tree and you'll get many eyes helping you see the bend. Good way to meet people. That was probably me you saw at the table, I came back and had the missus take a pic of me with the quiver.
Danny, I only have one more red fox pelt and it is sort of spoken for. Just a suggestion, you could get yourself a fox pelt from Pine Hollow Longbows and make him one yourself. Mike's pelts are much nicer than my crude tanning job. It wasn't hard to make the quiver. I just stitched up the bottom about like it came off the animal, leaving the legs hanging loose. I cut off the head a couple inches behind the neck, then turned it around and just stitched it to the top half of the opening so it would ride on top of the quiver. Threw a couple of stitches in through the nose to hold it there. Then I took a dowel and ran it from the opening back through the tail area, there was enough room between my stitching that it slid right through. I made a 1"-wide leather sling from some fairly heavy stuff, I had to stich together two pieces to get it long enough. I think it was over 3 feet long. I cut slits in both ends and just slid it over the dowel ends. Then I wrapped some sinew around the ends of the dowel so the leather wouldn't slide off easily. I used a leavy darning needle and artificial sinew for all the stitching work. You want to be kind of careful when pulling the sinew through the holes, so you don't grab a bunch of the hair when you pull things snug. I could push through the fox skin but had to use an awl to premake holes in the leather. I think I got it done, start to finish, in about an hour.
Maybe next year I'll pay more attention to the flintknapping. I am amassing stuff to do it but haven't had the time to get into it yet.
