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Primitive Fletching
Little John:
I have been getting more and mopre primitive with my fletching, now I am down to totaly abo ways. Well the abo's probably at least knew how. Have had fair results and hope to get better with another one or two under my belt. I prepared the turkey feathers (from Pappy, thanks) with an obsidian flake and hand fletched with deer sinue from Dana (thanks again to Dana) and attempted to burnthe fletches to shape by hand. Did not have a camp fire handy so used a clothes hanger heated over a propane camp stove. Came out fairly good but burning the feathers is a trick. The cool part is they work real good. Makes me really want to do a stone tool bow with sinue or gut srting. Kenneth
sailordad:
what no pics ???
would really like to see 'em, they sound cool 8)
tim
Woodland Roamer:
Yeah, pics!!
Alan
Little John:
OK. My camera batteries were down then the fletches wern't really that good and I thought I could get some better ones done to show, so here goes. There is one pic of some hillbillies I ran into in Tenn and our thirty point buck, some of some field points I make for cane arrows, Two hand fletched arrows with sinue and no glue and a trade point I made the trade point is 7/8" wide and weighs about 250 grains and is mounted with epoxy and sinue. I know I can do better with the flertches with practice but they shoot good any way. oh bthe better fletching job was hand fletched with feathers cut with a little chopper and the other is the tottaly primitive one. Kenneth
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Pappy:
Cool pictures,the arrows look great,down righ deadly. :)
Pappy
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