Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: n2everythg on April 16, 2009, 10:15:11 am
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Well I cant claim to have come up with this awesome concept. But the second best thing from coming up with a great idea is copying someone elses! HA
Actually I got this idea from a new friend of mine that I met recently down here in WS NC. Goes by Tracer on Stickbow site. or scott cristina. Anyway, dont know if he came up with the concept or not but he built one and I just had to make one up myself. I didnt have a hunting quiver that I was happy with so think I finally built one.
Wove the head out of cane strips and filled with an old 3D target foam. backbone of it is one long piece of cane that is split. bottom arrow holder is a spit piece of cane that holds in a piece of rubber. I wove the strap out of brain tanned buffalo strips and added some gee-gaws to it.
Enjoy
wade
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver005.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver006.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver011.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver012.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver014.jpg)
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Very nice!!! How hard is it to replace the arrows while wearing it on your back? Really nice concept. :)
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Great looking quiver.. Cant wait to see it this weekend.. ;)
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Very cool, Wade. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/hillbillync/Other%20Stuff/smilies/smokin.gif)
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.................
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HOOOOOLY @$%^ that ....GO#$#@^ thats really really reaally awesome.
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Fine work for sure on that piece of art bud! Really nice work.
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Cool fusion of modern and primitive 8) Great lookin quiver you made there!! Joe H
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Thanks all. appreciate the compliments.
When I saw scotts I knew I just had to have one.
I do know he is interested in making a couple up to trade or (that forbidden word here) $.
Dont really know how many 'orders' he can handle but if you are interested I could put you in touch with him.
For me... well one is 'nuf.... less of course someone offers me something I just cant resist for it.... .like maybe that bear skin rug or some such >:D
Thanks again.
wade
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Really nice twist to an awsome design, It looks to me like the Fred G Asbell design. I wear mine slung under my right arm with the points out in front of me. Love mine and think it is the ultimate hunting quiver. Easy to guide thru brush, easy to get an arrow on the string, easy to select the arrow you want. Again very nice workmanship and ingenuity. Kenneth
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Very Very NICE!!!
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Now that is a neat quiver! Great job! I like it. God Bless
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Incredible Wade! I want lessons on the long ride to the Classic!
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Any tips for splitting that cane evenly? It give me fits every time I split some and I wind up wasting a lot of it.
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Happy to provide them pat. It was kinda a fun project.
I did it like this with some suggestions and tips from Scott who had already built one:
built a form for the basket like this:
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/n2everythg/quiver015.jpg)
Then split the cane. and yea Steve it was a pain to split and get long strips. And I wasted a lot too.
I used really green cane. I used up 3 maybe 6' long cane pieces that were prob 1.25 dia. and pretty straight. I didnt do any additional prestraightening. I split with a thin knife stuck in my work bench but at the nodes I used a chisel to break the node and to try to keep the split straight. went slow. seemed to get at least 4 maybe 5 good full length long strips and some strips that ran out out of each cane piece. But for this small a basket all you really need are pieces approx 12-18" long. then I shaped and thinned the cane on a belt sander and put it immediately into a bucket of water.
soaked it for several days as it took time to make more strips. prob could have used it right away.
wove the basket over the form as best I could. cause of the shape and form I dont think I followed the traditional weaving rules as I understand them anyway. ran initial strips across length and width then corner to corner. holding down the cane with a band around the form. then I did the first horizontal set. after a while I just shoved and wove in extra strips that really only go 1/2 way across the basket to fill the wholes and gaps. then ran the rest of the horizontal weaves.
Then I set an inner ring piece and drilled through each strip with 1/16" bit. I used fine copper wire to wire up maybe 6 spaced out places on basket head just to hold things together. then pulled it off the form.
by the time I got the basket to this point the strips were too dry and brittle to fold them over the ends like a traditional basket. they kept breaking when I tried. maybe if I soaked and heated them I could have but not sure. So I just sewed the inner frame to the woven cane with artificial sinew. then I put on one external frame piece and used a needle to sew that one. then one more external ring.
hope that makes sense.
If I build another I will take pics along the way. Or maybe I can talk scott into doing it.
later
wade
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That is cooler than a pet frog. I really like it. Thanks a million for posting it, I think I might give it a try.
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Wow that is awesome you need a build-along
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Wade, that is an awesome quiver. My husband, Allen would have loved it when he saw it. He made beautiful cane arrows. I'm trying to make some like he did, but it's harder than it looked. Mrs.Cheapshot (Tomi) :)
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Great looking quiver I like it a lot. Tomi great to see ya on here. :)
Pappy
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That's awesome!! Nice work!
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thanks guys.
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Great looking and funtional quiver, Wade. Instead of splitting the cane why couldn't you cut the strips even size on the Band Saw?
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hey can you do us a demo on how you split and wove the cane too. I think it would make a brillaint how to.
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Eddie -
Duh... well. seems to make sense. didnt have a bandsaw at the time. now I have a small one I got in a trade with Boo. will have to try that next time and see how it works. seems like it would.
If there is a next time I will definitely do a build along.
wade
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:)
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very cool brother, i like that design... Hawk