A couple pics of agave quivers.  :)The big one will hold a dozen plus arrows. The smaller one six or seven. The strap is finger woven 44 inches long. Just a little sanding, a coat of poly and one more strap and i'll be done. :)

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The strap

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Cool quivers by the way!
Greetings,
Mauro.

Nice! i love traditional quivers. i thought agave had thicker walls than that...

Great work man!

Can you elaborate more on how you made them?

Ss, thanks. The walls are 3/16 on the narrower one & 3/8 " on the other. They are very light and strong.

Dan,Do you mean elaborate some? :) Not much to it. The fletch on my arrows starts at 24", so I cut them 26" long, cut 2" off the bottom, holllow out the two foot piece, glue the bottom back on sand and poly the quiver, and wrap on the strap, which I still need to do.

Making the strap is a bit tedious. Had to learn to finger weave :-?

BTW short sections of agave stalk make great needle holders 8-)

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Very nice, Walter. :)

I've not seen that use before. Was it used traditionally by anyone? Apache maybe?

wanderer wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 8:19pm:

Very nice, Walter. :) I've not seen that use before. Was it used traditionally by anyone? Apache maybe?

I don't know, but if it was obvious to me, agave stalk pin cushions were probably common house hold items used to hold agave & yucca awls and needles.

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walter wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 7:40pm:

Dan,Do you mean elaborate some? :) Not much to it. The fletch on my arrows starts at 24", so I cut them 26" long, cut 2" off the bottom, holllow out the two foot piece, glue the bottom back on sand and poly the quiver, and wrap on the strap, which I still need to do. Making the strap is a bit tedious. Had to learn to finger weave :-?

Haha, yeah. Rushing my posts sometimes leads to poor grammer.

I thought you had somehow joined the leaves together. Clearly your agave stalks are much larger than I'm used to, different species I guess.  :)

How did you hollow the agave?

walter wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 8:50pm:

wanderer wrote on Feb 17th, 2013 at 8:19pm: Very nice, Walter. :) I've not seen that use before. Was it used traditionally by anyone? Apache maybe? I don't know, but if it was obvious to me, agave stalk pin cushions were probably common house hold items used to hold agave & yucca awls and needles.

Thanks Walter, but I really meant the quivers, not the pin-cushion ;).

wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 9:38pm:

How did you hollow the agave?

Easiest way is to split the stalk, gouge out the core and put the stalk halves back together. I didn't do that. :)  I used a knife then a sawsall blade attached to a stick and then a longer stick with a chisel point.

wanderer wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 8:19pm:

Very nice, Walter. :) I've not seen that use before. Was it used traditionally by anyone? Apache maybe?

I've seen a lot of this type quiver on the net. I think it is abo tech.

probably, where on earth do you  find agave?

squirrelslinger wrote on Feb 18^th, 2013 at 9:00am:

probably, where on earth do you  find agave?

There's a lot of agave in Az :)