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New to arrow making, Tricks for fletching?

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Pat B:
These are 3 of my 6 hunting arrows for this past year. Two are modified Cherokee style 2fletch and one id a hybrid 2fletch.

nicksnacks:
All my arrows are 2 fletch-you just need to make the fletchings a little longer for more stability.

Shooter_G22:
Colt45,

   what type of arrows are you trying to build????   as far as what style or what type of material do you have handy???   i mean are you going all primitive with all natural shafting, tips and feathers???   or are you doing store bought shafts with comercial feathers...  either way is good in my opinion i do them all or try to anyway...  ;)   

     if your using all natural feathers meaning feathers straight off the bird...  than its fairly easy to do by  hand...   well they can all be done by hand and with out a jig...   just kinda hard to give advise if we dont know what style or what type of materials you got handy and what type of arrow your going for... ;)

i personally like the three fletch hylical done on a jig...   but i do use the other types of fletching just on differant shafting and just what ever i feel like building at the time...  i have done the 2 fletch and tought that style to my boys in the field as a field made arrow or survival arrow...   but like i sy for stuff done at home with lots of time and detail in them i really prefer the 3 fletch with a helical...

  you can do a three fletch helical by hand with a lot of patiance and a little practce and turn them out just fine...

   i use duco cement for all my fletching...  and i get it at my local walmart for 99 cents a tube...   i really like that duco more than anything else regardless of the price factor but being cheap is a great plus...

let us know what materials your working with huh???   

Colt45:
I am using 3/8 inches dowels from home depot... I don't have anything to use for fletching and it'd be great to know where to get some. Currently all my arrows are fletched with tape  ;D I'd love to get some feathers. Since I have one shorter bow and draw to my mouth rather than my ear, my arrows are about 24" long. Any suggestions? :D

Pat B:
the 3/8" shafts cut to 24" are going to be way stiff. For a 24" draw you may want to try 5/16 shafts. The longer they are the less stiff they will be so cut them longer than your draw, maybe to 26" or even 28".

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