Show Me Your Backquivers!

[zoryl]

Here's mine..

[30coupe]

Here's my first attempt.



It is too soft but it got me started. I'm going to take it apart and resize it for my grandson.

Here is my latest and favorite. This one is from a Sunset Hill kit. It will outlast me! English bridle leather...heavy but flexible enough to conform to my back and keep the arrows quiet and where they belong.



It's a bit darker colored now since I treated it with Montana Pitch Blend. The picture was taken right after I finished it.

[toehead]

Oklahomaleatherman-digging the BCO PATCH BROTHA!  I am going to tandy some time in the near future for my next project!

[EASTERNARCHER]

Not to hijack the thread, but what weight of leather make a good back quiver if I was to make my own? I use a Safarituff to hunt but would like one of these for roaming and stumping.

[SELFBOW19953]

My 2 homemade quivers-a Hill style and a St. Charles.

[Rick Butler]

Wendell, I used 5-6 oz. veg tanned leather for mine.

[Flying Dutchman]

Here ya go!

[EASTERNARCHER]

Originally posted by Rick Butler:
Wendell, I used 5-6 oz. veg tanned leather for mine.

Thanks Rick.

[canopyboy]

   

First attempt.  Used veg-tanned leather, finally getting broken in and softening up a little.  Love it though.  Made several prototypes out paper to get the strap and everything right so it would hang just where I wanted it.

Here it is in action, although note I was short-drawing a wood bow destined for someone else before you comment on how much arrow is hanging off the shelf....  

 

[Gdpolk]

Here's mine.  It's large and made of two layers of buffalo hide, one with hair on.  There is also a winter ermine (weasel family of critter) and natural turkey feathers on it.  I like it well enough.

  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee146/gdpolk/Traditional%20Projects/BisonQuiver.jpg  
  http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee146/gdpolk/Traditional%20Projects/IMG_3130.jpg

I'd like to eventually get Scott at Wyoming Wildlife Artistry to make me a back/side combo quiver similar to this one with divisions to separate out two kinds of arrows sometime though.  When I do that, I'll be selling my buffalo quiver.
 

[Thumper Dunker]

Heres mine. Just two hides sewn together.

[Kc kreger]

I would only recommend using veg-tanned leather if you are going to do some tooling on it.  Otherwise I like to use chrome tanned leather like a good oil tanned or even latigo (which is tanned as a veg first then retanned as a chrome).

Veg-tanned leather works well and gives you the option of tooling it, but will be stiffer and take longer to break in.  Chrome tanned leather is, for the most part, softer and gives that broken in feel right away, but you can not tool it.  

Latigo, being a veg and chrome tan will give you the best of both of the above mentioned leathers.  Latigo takes a stamp good good and is stiffer than a oil tanned leather but softer than a veg-only tanned leather.

I'm a big fan of using what you have and any of these leathers as well as hair-on hides works well for quivers.

K.C.

[Ron LaClair]

The Shrew quiver with bow pocket

 

[David Yukon]

I like that a lot Ron.

[rraming]

Originally posted by Ron LaClair:
The Shrew quiver with bow pocket

   

I thought that was not available anymore - hate seeing things I can't have!

[Goshawkin]

I use a CatquiverII for hunting deer&turkeys.
I use this one for stumping & at the 3D shoots,really nice and cool in the summer.

[Ron LaClair]

I thought that was not available anymore - hate seeing things I can't have!  

It may be coming back soon...  

[Walt Francis]

Spot and stalked a bear about twenty years back that was a little too rubbed on the sides so I ended up with three quivers like this one.  My wife call it "Cousin It".  Hard to tell, but the shoulder strap is one of the legs with the paw still on it.

[WhiteBeard121]

dang, can't get the hang of posting..., well got it posted but too big.

[WhiteBeard121]

First attempt at range/3D back quiver.