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Well, after many long hours and sore fingers, I finally finished my donation to the United Bowhunters of Missouri Festival live auction. This year's offering is a back quiver and matching arm guard. The maroon leather is bull hide and the golden leather is cape buffalo. The light trim and bling are deer hide. I burned the shapes onto the leather with a wood burning tool. I carved the lace hooks and buttons from deer antler and sewed everything up by hand using artificial sinew. Hopefully, these items will make the club a little money.

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Darren

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Wow!  Very nice.  I'm sure it will be appreciated.

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Lovely design work! The multi-colored leather is very striking, and the primitive archer designs are nicely done. 
Great work, with a lot of attention to detail. 

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Awesome, Darren. 

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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Wow, that's a LOT of stitching! No wonder you've got sore fingers! Very, very nice work!

 

I am curious as to why there look to be two bumps at the top and bottom of the arm guard. Is that where the edging strips begin and end?

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Great looking work! I'm sure it'll pull in a good chunk of change.

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Thanks, all! Sheilajeanne, those two bumps are where I put a small piece of leather over the spots where the trim edges meet. I hate leaving a raw edge showing!

Darren

 

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