![]() ![]() A few hand tools may be necessary to have on hand: sewing awl, leather punch tool, and a drill, among various other tools and materials. Just skin off like a sock and put a drying board inside the hide. The instructions below will cover 3 types of simple quivers that can be made at home: basket, leather, and PVC. Otter hides made very nice arrow quivers. ![]() it costs about $14 per bottle and I have not used this method. A simple method is to purchase a home tanning kit from Leather Unlimited and use the bottled method. I truly love working with leather and making things for people so i would very much appreciate your votes for the leather contest. Allow to dry and then you can remove the hide from the rack. Homemade Leather Quiver: Hey friends online Today I'm going to show everyone how to make a simple rawhide/leather quiver. While hide is on stretching rack use baby shampoo to wash hair side. Slightly wet the remaining gravy and wash off the flesh side and allow flesh side to redry. Some of this mush can be re-hydrated and put on another smaller hide. Afterwards rake off the dried acorn mush. Then coat the flesh side of the hide with the acorn mush and gravy mix and put the hide under a shed until the acorn mush dries. Once the hide is prepped, stretch the hide on a square rack and stretch the hide tight. You have to get all the fat and meat off the flesh side so that the oak tannins from the acorns can penetrate the dermis. This is the most labor intensive part of the leather making. I recommend draping the hide across a plastic 55 gallon drum, flesh side up, and scraping with a sharp fillet knife. You have to take your hide as soon as you kill the animal and start scraping off all the flesh that sticks to the flesh side of the hide. Hide preparation can be equally as tough. This acorn gravy can be stored in a 5 gallon bucket until needed. Then you pulverize them and put them in old cooking pot and simmer them until you get "acorn gravy". First you have to gather about 3 gallons of acorns in the fall. I acorn tanned my hide and that takes much preparation. It can be tough to tan your own hides but the rewards are great. (Sorry I don't have the photos for that.) These tabs were where I would later attach the strap that you would sling over your back. These tabs were sewn in at both the top and bottom of the quiver. I cut two small sections of the leather and matched the hole spacing and sewed them into the main stitch as I went. This string twisted into the PermaLock leather sewing needles and I used a whip stitch to sew up the tube. I had to go with brown polished hemp cordage to sew with that had a diameter about half of the punched holes. I thought about what I could do to alleviate the locked lace. I originally planned on using a running stitch with leather lace but found on the first stitch that 1/8 inch leather lace tends to pull hair into the hole as it is stitched and the lace becomes locked and will not sew at all. I used a leather hole punch to pop out the holes. I wanted to make sure that I got the same number of holes per side and that was as simple as counting dots. I used a triangle scale to layout the hole spacing and a Sharpie pen to mark the hole locations. ![]()
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