Hey, here are two new birch warclubs I finished this week,  I have been working on and off on them for a few months, there is perhaps 5 afternoons in each, not including finding, cutting, uprooting, carrying and drying the birch saplings.
 One is an eagle, the other a bear cub.  The ball heads are fire hardened, the bear club has a leather handle stitched on with hemp and the eagle club has a braided hemp wrist-strap.  They are both made from white birch, the most abundant hardwood in this area and what was commonly used for clubs here, (N.B. Canada and in Maine,) the only other option being maple and you will have a hard time finding anything but soft maple unless you go inland.  The curvature is the natural growth of the tree and the ball carved from the burled root end.  I'm taking them to the market tomorrow, (Saturday,) but likely won't sell them until summer comes and the tourists roll into town.  I am asking 145$Canadian each.
  I am currently making another one, this time without an animal totem from an excellent burled root I found this winter, it's all shaped, just needs to be finished up, fire hardened etc. so keep an eye out for it in the next few weeks.
  Please post any comments or questions as I really appreciate lots of feedback.  Thanks!

















   

Oh, and this is my cedar quiver, made from a split and hollowed cedar log, lashed together with hemp, based on some authentic ones I have seen.

I totally agree, these are really nice artefacts, congratulations!!
Greetings,
Mauro.

Yes that quiver is fantastic! And... finally some good old-school discussion again 
Luke, have you ever had the chance to see Otzi's quiver?  I may provide you some pics of it!
Greetings,
Mauro.

Those are really great. How much do you charge for them? If I did it I would charge at least a bajillion for each.

He said he was asking $145.00 Canadian. With the work involved that seems a very fair price to me.   Beautiful work, Luke.  Good job.

Oh yeah



buy a belt 

  Oh, and I would love to see otzis quiver!

  If you look through this link, (same as above link,) http://anthro.amnh.org/north ; you will see that some are round like mine and others are a rectangle, those are likely for being held under the arm, unlike a leather quiver this does not squish down flat and is hard, so it is uncomfortable and cumbersome to hold it under your arm.

And here it is: http://www.iceman.it/en/node/281

Okay the quiver's pic is not so accurate, but hey, I've been to the Museum and there was a signboard saying:"Pics forbidden. They would seriously damage organic finds".
But there's a lot of things that one could reconstruct modeling on that site's pics 
Greetings,
Mauro.