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Some Archery Arm Guards I Just Finished

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Here are some photos of three archery arm guards I just finished. The first two will be given as gifts to two speakers at the upcoming United Bowhunters of Missouri Festival. They are made from cane toad skins, backed with vegetable tanned cowhide and trimmed with deer hide. I carved the antler hooks out of deer antler and hand-sewed everything with artificial sinew.

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I donated this full-length arm guard to be an item in the live auction at the UBM Festival. It is made from ostrich leg skins, backed with vegetable tanned cowhide and trimmed with lambskin. The lace hooks are carved from deer antler.

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Darren

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Dude - that's different. i dig it. Way to not make cookie cutter stuff. The bone/tooth eyelets is a great idea (what the heck are they?)

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Sjohnsone, those "eyelets" are lace hooks I carved out of pieces of deer antler that I got from my farm.

I see that you are a banjo picker; 5-string or 4? My brother picks. He's got a nice Gibson with an Odes pot. That thing will ring!

Darren

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I am! It's a four string - 30's Gibson pot with a Weyman Neck.

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