A new quiver for my Son

[Rancid Crabtree]

This Quiver is for my Son Josh. It goes with the Longbow I made for him. He does not like back quivers and thinks a hip quiver is ok but when I explained this quiver to him, he thought he would like it.

I made a pattern from a piece of padding from when I installed hardwood floors in my dinning room. It is about as thick as the leather I am using but a bit more flexible. It makes a good prototype material.







My biggest concern with having such a big opening in the side of the quiver is that, over time, as the leather softens, it will fold or collapse. I will reinforce the quiver to prevent that from happening.



I am making the quiver out of 8 Oz. tooling leather.



In order to stiffen the sides of the quiver, I stitched long strips of leather to the inside of the quiver.



I left one end open so I could insert 3/32 dia. music wire the entire length of the quiver.





the next step is to at a bit if stiffness and decoration to the opening.



I stitched this piece of 5 Oz. leather to the quiver while flat (before shaping.




The next step is to shape the quiver into it tubular shape. I wetted the leather to allow me to shape the quiver and then used a blow dryer to save a bit of time drying it off. I then marked an overlap and used rubber cement to join the to ends so that I could punch the stitching holes.





With the bottom stitched, I joined both sides of the quiver opening.