Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: DC on May 19, 2018, 02:18:04 pm
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My wife spotted an ad on FB. A guy had clipped a wing on his peacock and wondered it anyone wanted them. I jumped at it, I've been looking for peacock wing feathers. I got six half feathers five of them were long enough for two fletch each but the sixth was too short. I decided to mark the cock feather with spliced on white turkey feathers. I also thought I would use a stone point(obsidian I think) that Pender Bender gave me. Thanks Brendan. Hence the two preceding posts. I've never spliced a fletch before and 3 of the 4 turned out pretty good, the fourth has a bit of a gap but it will shoot fine. Bamboo garden stake shafts. Field points are made with hard concrete nails.
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Nice arrows, DC and the splices look good too. :OK
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Very nice job on those.
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Thanks guys, arrows are really hard to photograph :D
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Those looks really good Don! I thought that point looked familiar. I gotta try that feather splicing one of these times. Cheers- Brendan
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Very nice DC
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Very nice DC, I have a hard enough time gluing whole feathers on let alone splicing them. They look great and I like all the points to.
Bjrogg
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Excellent. Congrats!
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They look great.
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Thanks guys, 'preciate it.
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Very nicely made arrows DC.I used to raise those peacocks years and years ago.Too bad the tail feathers won't work as they molt every year in the fall.Nice natural colors to them.
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Yeah, I really like the brown that the peacock wings have. I found them really tough to split though. The knife wanted to wander instead of just splitting the quill. I had to go really slow cause I just had enough to fletch four arrows. I may have been me, I haven't done any feather splitting for quite a while.
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Did you grind the quills? I found they were easier to grind than turkey feathers. The quill seemed softer.
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Yes I did but I really didn't notice a difference.
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Cool! Been wanting to try them. How's their stiffness compared to turkey primaries?
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They seem to be thicker but the stiffness seems the same so maybe not so good for flight arrows. The turkey feathers I compared them with are white domestic turkeys. They may nave thinner vanes. The quill seems a lot bigger and more tapered but the ones I got were from the one wing that they clipped so it couldn't fly. I also don't know how old the feathers were. Like had they extended fully before the clipped them.