Buckskin: What do you guys think?

[Almostpighunter]

Sometimes what goes around comes around...and if you do good, then good comes back to you. I sent a bow out to a friend as a surprise and it completely caught him off guard. I am a little surprised at the reaction he has had to it (mostly because the fellow is a real "gun" guy) as he appears to have been absolutely bowled over. I never asked for anything in return, but things have begun arriving in any case. Now it is my turn to be bowled over as he has sent me boxes of what appears to be professionally tanned buckskin. I now have 3 complete hides, plus several large scrap pieces and I need to do something with them. Problem is I really have no clue what to do with them that would be worthy of their quality. I'd love to make some quivers, but the leather is so soft that I don't even know where to start.

Anyone have any ideas or can link me some projects from the build-a-long? In the end, if I can't come up with something maybe the stuff will end up in the trade section, but I feel kinda funny about doing that as the leather was a gift, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

[Pat B]

Make yourself a war shirt. You can get a pattern book from Crazy Crow and other places. Three hide war shirts were a common style.  Also check out the "How To" section for all sorts of ideas about quivers, possibles bags, moccosins,etc.

[M-P]

How about a bow case or two?   You got have something something to cover your bow(s) as you drive around.   A fancy buckskin jacket might be nice, too.    Ron

[criveraville]

A war shirt would be neat. Or a Ghost Dance shirt? Those are beautiful. Pat have you made a war shirt?

[Pat B]

Not yet Cipriano but there is one in my fiture. All I need is 3 or 4 brain tanned deer hides and I'll be set! 

[JackCrafty]

When I'm not making something with it, I throw my best hides over chairs and such in my work area...or I hang them up.  Cheers me up seeing all that fur and leather.

[Diligence]

Mike,

As we talked about, I was going to take some pics of my simple Plains style quiver and email them to you, but instead I made a quick video.  I figured it was so simple that a video would be easier to see what I had done.

Here's the Youtube link.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5C-pb0xrQ

I should mention that I used it a lot without the extra wide shoulder strap, and it was fine, but when I really started to fill it up, the extra width strap was just a bit more comfortable. I carry it over my left shoulder, with the fletching to my right side, at belt level across my lower back.

The extra thong that I tied across the mouth of the quiver makes sorting arrows really easy.  I had toyed with the idea of adding another thong going in the opposite direction to make a " + " so that I could sort four different kinds of arrows, that all have the same fletch, but have never gotten around to doing it.

Cheers,
J

[Almostpighunter]

Thanks to all!

@Diligence: Big shout out of thanks to you! That video helped a great deal! I"ll let you know how the construction progresses.

-Mike

[Mechslasher]

here is a war shirt rebecca parker made for me and she also did the quil work.  i'm keeping score of what i've killed with traditional equipment on the front and she did the hunting scene of when i killed a boar with a stone point on the back.  hoping to add more to the front and back in the coming years.

[mullet]

 That came out real nice, Chris.

[Almostpighunter]

Well that isn't too amazing, is it? Thanks for posting that Mech.