I love carrying contraptions. Backpacks, pockets, bags, satchels, tupperware, buckets, pots; they're all great. I would have too many backpacks if I let myself--there's something so satisfying about a thing that perfectly fits other things. One of the Best things that carries things is a quiver. There's something about a box full of arrows, a tube full of arrows, neat rows, a pile, a few arrows, a score of arrows... I feel like there are more quiver styles than there are shooting methods.
I shoot ambidextrously because a) it's fun and b) I'm cross eye dominant so neither hand Just Makes Sense. This is an issue on the quiver front, though, because (imo) the best quivers hold arrows snuggly and also snuggly to the body. Both of these things generally mean the arrows end up needing to be at a particular spot around the hip of your drawing hand to make it comfortable to grab and attached in a manner that's stable enough for the arrows to slide out. This is... inimical to using alternating hands. I have, on my mental drafting table, a plan for something that will mount centrally on three points and rotate and lock to point left or right depending on which hand but that is... overly elaborate and hard to swallow attempting to build without being fairly confident it will work the way I envision. So this week I did the way way way simpler thing and slapped together the model for a pocket quiver.
This guy can slip into a back pocket or clip onto a belt/waistband and puts the arrows right into that reachable spot. Pocket quivers are one of many quivers one can use, and lots of people like them (and it seemed perfect for my use case). I decided to make instead of buy, and modeled my own because there was only one model out there with a clip that also optimized for clip print orientation--and I wanted it even slimmer and even more optimized: like what I saw, this uses a dovetail to attach the clip without glue, but this one only needs support for a like, 2x3mm segment. instead of most of the clip. It took around an hour to model and another three to print. I have been champing at the bit to try it since, but weather and schedule conspired against me and I had to wait till today to learn
it is exactly what I want right now! It lets me keep the arrows close at hand insteada spiked into the ground and I can pop it into the other pocket when I swap hands mid session. I decided loading it outside of my pocket is easier, so I empty the target, fill the quiver, and slip it into whichever pocket is right.
I might gussy it up a bit (offsets are very tight right now, maybe I will add chamfers to each hole to make sliding arrows in even easier) before sharing the model but I would be comfortable dropping it out onto printables today, tbh. Currently I'm just excited to use it, though.