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2 recent projects, archery set and my new hunting quiver for this year

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half eye:
The first set is made for a friend. Stuff needed to be fully functional and also be able to be used for wall art. The bow had to have an arrow rest and was limited to 40 pounds @28" of draw.
    The specs are: Bow is 56" elm, double curve Ojibwa and the draw and weight are exactly as specified. The Quiver is black bear, with moose hide strap ties, the 2 ermine are case skinned and left whole to be used as medicine bags. They are attached with freshwater mussel shell roundels. The bag is large enough to accommodate a good size bundle and at least 18 arrows. The arrows are red cedar, greased and oiled, 3 of them have my version of "primitive target points" the others will have stone heads hafted by my friend. It is a nice quiver but bear hide is quite heavy so for an all day deal there might be better choices.

The second project is my current hunting quiver. Obviously it's a badger, was not cased so sewed down the belly, has no stiffener, and the bandolier is Moose leather. It's braided, split and re-split for the cones (tin) the knife is my stone "dressing" knife in a buckskin leather case.

hope ya like 'em, comments always welcome. There's a lot of pics but you can sort 'em out.
rich

half eye:
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half eye:
badger quiver, the last pic is of the "back side"

KHalverson:
great looking work Rich
I'm really really digging the badger quiver.
Kevin

burchett.donald:
Rich,
          That is some awesome work, it doesn't get any better...

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