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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Kegan on May 23, 2010, 03:11:48 pm

Title: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Kegan on May 23, 2010, 03:11:48 pm
Man I'm cheap. I refused to come up with the measly $20 for a jig of my own for after graduation (I'm using my brother's) so I went and made this. On the up side it works. On the downside I have to come up with a small spring clamp of my own anyway.

I'm both proud and ashamed of myself. Mostly ashamed ;)

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Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Pat B on May 23, 2010, 04:53:04 pm
Be proud!!!  This is the way our archery forefathers did it...with what they had to work with.    8)
Pretty nifty contraption.  ;)
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Cromm on May 23, 2010, 04:53:37 pm
Great work, I love it.
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: George Tsoukalas on May 23, 2010, 10:04:22 pm
Good for you, Keegan. Jawge
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: kerryb on May 23, 2010, 11:27:41 pm
great little jig, id be proud
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: aero86 on May 24, 2010, 12:20:43 am
that is very nifty!  i like it.  if i didnt use fletch tape, id copy you!
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: FlintWalker on May 24, 2010, 12:27:41 am
Necessity is the mother of all invention  ;)
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: bowkee on May 24, 2010, 01:07:05 am
Kegan,  on that, good goin 8)Phillip
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Pappy on May 24, 2010, 10:18:25 am
Nice job,use what you have,  :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Kegan on May 24, 2010, 11:56:13 am
Thanks everyone! Despite my normally lazy personaility, this thing works pretty well compared to a "real" jig. Not perfect, but neither is my brother's store bought "real" jig ;).
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: bowkee on May 28, 2010, 03:24:13 pm
Ya inspired me to make another. Didn't take me long to get back into this great hobby. :)
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: riot on May 30, 2010, 12:20:04 pm
Hi Kegan

Real nice looking Jig mate!
Im thinking of doing something along the same lines.

That top rail you use to pin the clamp in place, do you think it would be possible to mount a pivoting bolt on on end of it to allow for offest? then maybe secure the adjusting (loose) end with a nail or pin that could be set into predrilled positions at the knock end of the jig to lock it iall into place?

Totally awesome and cheers cobber :-)

Jeff
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Lombard on June 01, 2010, 03:42:54 pm
Looks practical to me, and you made it yourself, even better.
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Bevan R. on June 02, 2010, 10:48:58 pm
I like it also. Might even copy it to give to people that want to borrow my fletcher's.
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Postman on June 02, 2010, 10:51:45 pm
Nice job! 20 bucks= lotsa feathers!
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: stickbender on June 03, 2010, 01:32:28 am

     Ashamed for what?  That is cool!  8) You came up with it on your own, cool again 8)  How do you think all the wondrous inventions we take for granted today, came about?  Someone needed something, couldn't afford to buy something similar, and sat down, and solved the problem.  Sam colt supposedly came up with the revolver, while at sea, and watching the steering wheel of the ship, and came up with the patterson colt, and progressed from there on.  My Dad went through the Great Depression, and I am still amazed at some of the things he could make, that worked just as well as store bought.  About the only improvement on your design, would be fancier wood.  But unless you want to make some for gifts, stick with what you have.  If it works, it works!  And it sure works for me.
Why spend good money on something you can make?  Plus the satisfaction of making it, and using it, knowing that YOU made it.  And now it is helping you make arrows, and so on.  Do you think our forefathers waited for the area they settled, to get a railroad, or the stage, so they could get the tools, and equipment they needed to homestead?  Ever see a home made corn sheller?  My Grand father made a potato chip slicer for my mother.  Basically just  a finished piece of half inch oak, with half inch railings, and a slot cut in the middle of the larger board, which was about 9-10 inches long, and about 4-5 inches wide.  A piece of steel was drilled, with two holes, in it, and one edge had a bevel on it, and honed to very sharp, and you could adjust the cutting depth, to make thinner, or thicker chips.  Basically like an upturned wood plane. ;)  It works very well!  8) My Dad used to make butter churns, buckets, and barrels when he was a kid.  Most of his life growing up, if he didn't make it, he didn't have it.  Lots of people used to make their own barrels, rather than go down to the hardware store, and buy them.  They didn't have the money to waste on something they could make!  Besides most of the barrels down there, they made!  Don't ever feel ashamed of something you made instead of buying one.  Yeah, maybe you can get one out of better material, or with more bells and whistles, but the key to all of this is, does it suit your purpose, and does it work?  That is the bottom line!  Great Job Kegan! 8)  Yes I, like a LOT of others here who read this Will copy it too ! ;)  And I thank you for it.
                                                                                              Wayne
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Kegan on June 03, 2010, 11:36:41 am
Thanks everyone :)!
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: JW_Halverson on June 03, 2010, 12:00:26 pm
THIS, ladies and germs, is what the whole Primitive Archer movement is all about!

I really have nothing against all the fine, and I do mean fine merchants out there that I purchase supplies and tools  from...but there is a certain satisfaction with making and then using your own tools and equipment.  The arrows I fletch with the turkeys I harvest, sorry...kill, well let's just say they fly more sweetly than those with purchased fletching. Love the staves Sidewinder has sent me, but the hackberry staves I cut in the backyard get a little more loving attention, ya know?

Good solid piece of work, guy!

Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: AncientArcher76 on June 04, 2010, 02:28:56 am
Cool how does that work?  Nevermind I see now...That is very ingenious.  If u think about it u can expiriment and mak ur clamp part thicker at the other end to give an offset in ur fletching.  Good job...For kicks Im going to make one!  Unless u want to make one for me I can send u some shafts...
...now im being cheap.
Russ
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: stickbender on June 04, 2010, 03:40:59 am

     No Russ, that is being lazy......  ::)  Which is why store bought is still around...... But sounds like a good idea! ;D


                                                         Wayne
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: Bevan R. on June 04, 2010, 03:57:59 pm
There you go Kegan, I think you just went into business!!!
Title: Re: New Fletching Jig
Post by: PeteC on June 15, 2010, 09:59:28 pm
Another neat fletcher.That's great Kegan.I really like your resourcefulness. Keep at it. God Bless