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Eastern woodlands 2 fletch orientation?
Aaron1726:
I do mine by trying the rear (closest to the nock) of the feathers first with the feathers oriented laying over the nock. And they are perpendicular to the nock, so on the left and right of the arrow. Then I fold them over the wraps and tie on at the front with the front ends in line with the nock so the feather twists 90 deg. Next time I fletch one I'll take some pics and post them. I also find it helpful to mark the shaft first where I want things and also a tiny drop of superglue to hold the feather to the shaft while tying to keep things straight and tight. I'm sure there are other ways as well, this is just what works for me. Hope this helps
Aaron1726:
Paul, I fletched one up last night and took a few picks so you can see how I do mine. I start with the feathers, in this case turkey wing secondary feathers. I pull back some from the end to mark the back of the fletching and then peel off the sides as shown to get the length. I don't have any set size really, just have some arrows that shoot good and I use those to guide the next ones.
After the quill is clean I trim the back end down to near the quill and then split the quill for the front half. The splitting part is where I had a big learning curve and have ruined several feathers. If you use more delicate feathers with a smaller quill you can skip the splitting part.
Finally I prep both ends of the quill by scoring then so the binding can grip good.
Aaron1726:
Next I mark the shaft where I want the wraps front and back and where the quill should be. The rear is perpendicular to the nock and front in line with it. Then I super glue the back down so that the feathers lay over the nock, at this point they are positioned (0) about the shaft. Then I wrap (in this case with artificial sinew) and trim the end.
Aaron1726:
Now I fold the feathers back over the wrap and glue them to the shaft at the marks making sure they are tight to the shaft, this will give 90 deg of twist to them. Once they are glued on, the ends are trimmed and tapered. If the alignment is off, you can easily pull free (so long as you glue sparingly) and re position things.
Aaron1726:
Now just wrap the end and use a loop of other string, in this case a small loop of b55, to secure the tag end. Then trim and done. At this point you could shoot it as is, or trim it up how ever you want. I like to trim mine a bit shorter.
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