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1st primitive arrow build 2 fletch Eastern Woodland...a few questions

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Pat B:
I think the pitch resin you bought doesn't get hard. It is for something else. Find some pine trees and look for damaged areas that are oozing sap. The old, hard, brittle stuff works best. If you get sticky sap you will have to cook out the volatile oils so the pitch gets hard and is not sticky until you heat it.

Buck67:
I make my pitch glue for adhering arrowheads with Pine sap scavenged from pine trees, beeswax and crushed charcoal.  Equal parts of each.  That makes for an amazing waterproof adhesive that really works well holding flint tips.  Be careful reducing the dried pine pitch, do it out of doors, it is flammable so be careful.  A handful of dried pine sap will produce enough refined pine sap to fill an Altoids can.

Check out some of the Cherokee and Great Lakes fletching methods, the feathers are only attached at the front and the nock.  I have done that design on some of my practice arrows and have gotten hundreds of shots with them before a feather breaks. 

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