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Can't quite picture it. Two things that might help. There are some twisted quirts on e bay that may be similar, the other thing is search rawhide quirts on google, down the page a ways you'll see "images of rawhide quirts", look thru those pics & you may find what your looking for. Hope this helps & welcome. Buck

Just had another thought scrolling down thru the forums, there is a forum for archery quivers that should have some good info. Buck

Joe, I did one recently for a spotting scope. I laced it with rawhide. Sorry, I didn't think to take pictures. Looked nice & the rawhide lace will take a lot abuse & wear well. Buck

Pretty piece Brian. Buck

Nice Mike. Is it made from softened rawhide? Buck

Looks really good, nice straight braids. I kind of like the more muted contrast between the two colors. If I could find any fault with it the noseband may be a little long, hard to tell just looking at a pic. Nice job. Buck

Really nice Brian, I like the plait on the loop & great job on the pineapple. Buck

Nice job. I like the pattern in the braid. Buck

The insanity of creative genius, or the creativity of insane genius, or ? never mind, I like it. See you in Sheridan. Buck

Joe, I work kind of cheap, but I think cost of material & about an hour of work per would put them at about $30 a piece on the low end. I'm not sure, but "the part that attaches the bit to the reins" may possibly be the technical term. Just kidding, Buck

Joe, I liked it, If you paired it up with Brad's method of pulling the hide off it would be a real snap. SilverBear, Grant does have a method which uses salt which seems odd because he also says that salt hides are no good for rawhide. I think that maybe salting rawhide was kind of common place in Tx. I don't think the salt helped the hide, but it doesn't seem to have hurt it. It was only on for a short time. Buck

Very nice. Buck

I tried a couple of new things that worked pretty well & seemed worth sharing. I fairly often end up skinning my hides off & wanted to try a technique I saw a few years ago in a hide plant. I put a section of copper tubing on an air compressor blow gun & put a point on it like a hypodermic needle. You poke it under the skin in an ear & blow the hide up like a balloon (still on the animal of course). It separates the hide from the carcass with no meat attached & makes it super easy to skin off. The second thing came about from necessity. I was given a really nice hide for pick up at a slaughter house. When I arrived to pick it up, I discovered that it had been salted for about 1/2 hour. I took a chance & washed it down really well & took it home. I knew the hair wouldn't come off very easy from the salting & was leery about liming it, so I stretched & dried it, clipped the hair short, but didn't scrape it until I cut & cornered my strings. Worked well & I didn't have to scrape anything I wasn't using. Salting for the short time didn't seem to ruin the rawhide. Buck

Joe, I'm planning to be there & hand deliver my entries. Buck

Very nice Brian. I can appreciate the thought process that went into the knot, although my bright ideas don't usually turn out that nice. Buck

Joe, I Put my entry in the mail today. Buck

Nice job. Buck

Troy, Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Buck

Pic came up OK for me. My opinion is that it is a ring knot over a separate knot. My main reasoning is that the strings in the under knot appear to be smaller than those in the ring knot. I think a ring knot under on each side with a turkshead over them would leave the center indented, ring knot on top set into the indentation. interesting knot anyway, we'll see what comes up on it. Buck

Nice job. Buck

Those are beauties . Buck

It appears that at least part of the areas that the hair didn't slip on might have a little fat left on which will make the hair harder to remove. The bubbling you mentioned is just caused by heat & gasses build up between the fat & membrane & the hide, same effect as bloating. I'm assuming you used a lime solution since you used the term slip. If you flesh it out good before soaking it, the hair will slip more easily. I agree with Oltoot, I'm one of those who sometimes gets a little lazy with my fleshing as long as I get the fat off good, but I don't always get that real nice translucent look over the whole hide (Thanks Oltoot). Overall looks good, should make you some nice rawhide. Buck

Nice job. The hardest part with rawhide is getting the moisture right. There's a lot of terrific help here. Good luck. Buck

Here is set #3. 8 & 12, small diameter for a person with small hands. Reins are 3/16, split parts 3/32. Buck

Tracy, Yeah it would be the same as a round pineapple only worked flat. That's the beauty of the pineapple, or turksheads in general no matter the interweave, is that they can take on almost any shape. I think if you closed it in around the round braid on each end it would stay in place. Anyway, you have a good variety of ideas. Good luck & let us know how it turns out. Buck