Mostly because I just like it better.
I do think hide is a bit easier to keep treated against water (hair-on hide even moreso) - but either will work.

How did you get good tasting pemmican?! Mine taste like old candles.

Happy birthday!!

What a great fabric!

... and you absolutely have the look down.

Hunh - that looks like really interesting stuff!

How interesting that they used finished bread for it*. Do you happen to know if the bread was usually stale/old, and if that made a difference?

Hunh. Gwaebind does roll off the tongue easier, though I can't right off find something speaking to that particular case. I can check in my books if you don't get a solid answer for your Discord people, but I imagine anyone on a discord dedicated to Sindarin is going to be the better judge. :mrgreen...

I did find a special character (set of characters, really) for "ae" in the Gondorian mode, p17 of this document: https://ia804508.us.archive.org/35/items/tengwar-textbook/Tengwar%20Textbook.pdf It's also shown on the site Cimrandir linked if you select "Sindarin Tengwar (General use)&...

I know I've said this before elsewhere, but to second Greg - things are going to slide around a bit anyway. And more, your shoulder will get tired if there's any real weight there (this is why I'm not a fan at all of the "lash extra things to the quiver" approach). The nice thing about an ...

I love it! I'll double check today, but at first glance that looks good. You can a tengwar transciption here - https://www.tecendil.com/ (two notes on this - one, be aware the extra lines on the initial characters in the "Telcontar" font are an aesthetic doubling like you might see in an o...

Latin, it looks like.

You can look up individual words here: https://www.elfdict.com/
... but Sinadarin mutation is tricky. That's a good start though.

Also.. maybe wrap the handle in a sword-hilt wrap to hide the rivets?

Oh!

Minor thing, but if you're having it newly made, do you think your smith could enclose the tang with no external rivets? I think it would look much more period that way, if it's possible.

Okay, I tried pulling out the tengwar and I can't make any sense of it at all. Here's the sounds the characters signify, going by the workbook at tecendil: https://www.tecendil.com/tengwar-handbook/ (admittedly I was a bit hurried before work, I might have missed something. And "-" means t...

per request, dimensions: quiver main body piece is:27.5" tall, 14 1/8" wide at top, 9 1/2" at bottom. About 6" from the top of the quiver to widest point. spine piece is 27.5" long, 5" wide at widest part of arc, the spine itself tapers from 2.5" to 1.75" (for...

Dragged both onto the bathroom scale today:

wool ~7.8 lbs, 114"x118"  => 12.02 oz/yd
oilskin: ~6.1 lbs, 96"x94" => 14.02 oz/yd

Wool packs down bulkier, but carried they feel pretty comparable.

Thanks all! :mrgreen: does the spine run up the inside as well, like over top of the linen liner? You can run the spine stitches through the lining, but I don't. Partly because I just like the cleaner look, but also because when the linen finally gives out - and it will eventually - it will almost c...