cow rawhide equipment

[BowEd]

I've been making different quivers out of rawhide lately.Back pocket quiver,hip quiver,and a cat quiver.All from just a small part of a cow rawhide.Lightweight & durable.About an 1/8" thick when dry.
Just stretch the rawhide in a frame,Flesh it [or flesh it on a beam then lace it into a frame]Let it dry.Dry scrape it to dehair it.Unlace it or cut it out of frame.Maybe spray it down with some kind of bug killer.I've used off before and it worked fine.Make things out of it at your liesure.

Ed

[BowEd]

Also small square pieces of rawhide at least 1/16th" thick can be used as inserts in the nock ends of your arrow shafts to keep them from splitting.Imagination can find a lot more uses of this good stuff too.Bindings etc. too.

[Pappy]

Got to love rawhide.
   Pappy

[BowEd]

Here's some more uses of rawhide.

[BowEd]

And again.

[primitivepaulette]

You're really a talented guy Beadman. Great thing about cowhide is that it it same thickness, great for lariat, not that I have one to show!

[BowEd]

Thanks primitivepaulette.....Wish my ex thought that.......LOL.Anyway,yep lariats,whips,handle braids etc.I think they like to use kangaroo rawhide for whips.Snowshoe bindings.Tough as nails.If a person gets a braiding how to book the projects are endless it seems.

[richardzane]

nice rawhide boxes Beadman,
and I like the suggestion of using rawhide as nock inserts! makes a lot of sense as it'd be relatively consistent in thickness.

[hatcha]

If the rawhide gets wet, does it turn soggy and slippery again?

[BowEd]

I'll reply to that question with Pappys' motto...If you have to ask you would'nt understand.There are excellent ways of water proofing natural materials to be useful in not too extreme situations.

[BowEd]

Here's some quivers of cow rawhide.Cat,pocket,and hip quivers.I melted straight beeswax into it to tolerate a moist day,drizzle,and sprinkling but a continual rain on it will eventually start to loosen it up.That's the only slight draw back.I won't be bow and arrow hunting in that kind of rain anyway.

[BowEd]

It drys out anyway and retains it's shape.