Building a St. Jude's Quiver - Update on Page 3

[snag]

That is going to be one special quiver! Love the design and the wood carvings are a great touch. Is that pattern something you made?

[JC]

That is an incredible donation...you are doing the good Lord proud with your skills. Beautiful.

[bctgrad]

Thanks for all the kind words. I really wasn't fishing for compliments, I just wanted to show what went into making this to try and maximize the bids.

Yes, Snag, I came up with the button design kind of by mistake.  I'm sure that it's been done by others, but mine was purely an accident and I liked it.

The quiver design was also something that I was forced to stumble through on my own. When I made my first one I didn't have any Trad shops around to look at quivers, so I just made what I thought would work.  On this one and the last one I was able to fix a couple of minor things that I don't like about mine.

I'm working on this when I can in the evenings and weekends and hope to have the bottom on by the end of the week.

I'm not exactly sure when the auction starts, but I don't think it's too soon.  When I get it done it's going to lpcjon2 to join the arrows that have been donated for the package.  I think he's handling the auction for the whole package.

Brian

[ron w]

All I can say is, "FANTASTIC"..........

[jcar315]

Awesome quiver build along. Beautiful quiver any of us would be proud to wear.

Thanks!

[bctgrad]

I finally got back to working on the quiver.

Here's the bottom being stitched on:




I did everything that I could to limit the number of knots in the leather lacing.  There are no knots on the inside of the quiver.  I kept them all on the outside to eliminate the possibility of hanging up a broadhead when removing an arrow.  The only knots are where the straps and the pouch top attach to the body and where the buttons attach.  The knots that hold the top strap on might take a bit getting used to on your shoulder and depending on how sensitive your shoulder is you may want to add some type of padding, but I thought that this was still better than having them in the way inside.  The lacing for the front seam and the bottom end at the same place at the front and are braided together.  

Here I am braiding:




The ends of the braids are wrapped in serving thread and coated with superglue:






And it's finally DONE!!!




Some glamour shots with me wearing it:








The finished quiver is 22" tall and has a 6 3/8" diameter.  In the pictures above there are 30 arrows in the quiver.  The short ones with the barred fletch are 27 1/2" long and the long ones are 31 1/2".  I'm 6'-3" and my chest measures about 47" and this fits me perfect.

Just for grins I kept track of my time working on this.  I had 48 hours total from making the buttons to stitching the parts together.

Next week it'll be off to be partnered up with the Evo and the donated arrows.

Now it up to all of you to run the bids up and raise some big bucks for St. Jude's and the kids.

Thanks for letting me be a part of this and allowing me to share my build.

Brian

[yellow bow]

Very well done.  

[bjansen]

Outstanding!

[L. E. Carroll]

Very Nice          

Gene

[lpcjon2]

Awesome!!!

[David Bartholomew]

Brian,

Excellent!

[rastaman]

Awesome, incredible job!  

[Maxximusgrind]

That will have people bidding before the auction starts  

[Ar lineman]

WOW!Love it!              

[Stephan]

unbelievable!!

really beautiful Quiver!

[MercilessMing]

Brian,

Excellent job!  Beautiful buttons and lacing.  Love it!

Ming

[bctgrad]

Here's an update on the upcoming auction.

There isn't enough time to get the whole Evo package put together the way everyone involved wanted to for this year's auction so I'm going to list this quiver in an auction by itself.  

We're going to put together the full Evo package for next year's auction.

Brian

[PAPA BEAR]

i neglected to add my compliments and appreciation to you brian for making this very nice quiver,the entire package is on the auction as we speak.i am bidding on it also as i have a plan for evo next year in the auction.

[Doug Campbell]

Really impressive work Brian!! Thanks a bunch for all your effort!

[Ragnarok Forge]

Awesome.  I am sure the bids will be high.