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Fletching help
JW_Halverson:
For years now I have been looking at all your arrows with envy and worse, so I am going to do some of those "spliced" fletchings. I have purchased good quality fletches and cut them to the sizes needed, but when I glue them on the shafts the "blends" are often sticking up off the arrow at such radically different angles perpendicular to the shaft that I cannot get the vanes of the feathers to 'zip' together.
What am I doing wrong, how can I correct this?
sailordad:
pics please ;)
easier to see what your talking about
stringstretcher:
One thing that helped me was, after cutting the spices and putting them in the jig, I ran the quill down on a flat piece of metal that had sandpaper on it. What it did was get the two or three quill bottoms to the same flatness/angle and that allowed them to align better. Once glued, take your fingers, starting at the quill and get the feathers to blend together.
Tom Leemans:
Where your splice comes from on the donor feather is an important part of a good looking splice. You want the quills to lay the same as the ones you take from the main feather.
Question, are you taking your donor (splice) feather down to the membrane and gluing it in, or are you butting the pieces together?
JW_Halverson:
I'm using whole feathers purchased from 3R, cut to length(s), without any further sanding of the rachis (center stem of the feather).
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