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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 03:28:46 pm

Title: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 03:28:46 pm

First I measure how wide my splice piece should be.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 03:57:41 pm

Next I strip a feather the color I want the splice to be.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:01:43 pm

Then place the striped feather on your marks and cut your splice pieces.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:21:19 pm

Choose you feather you want to splice. Measure the distance you want your splice to be and mark it at the back of your feather on your tape.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:25:18 pm

After you have done that I use an exato knife to cut out where my splice feather goes. I lay my blade flat and cut very slow and careful.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:27:25 pm

Next I use a little fletch tight on my splice feather.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:31:11 pm

Insert glued splice piece into feather.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:34:15 pm

Then just trim to feather.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:37:01 pm

I have been using some fletch tape for attaching my feathers.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:38:57 pm

After the tape is applied I make sure I line up where my splice feather is to be placed.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:41:15 pm

After I get it all lined up I pull of the backing of the tape and apply my fletch. This one is the cock feather.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 04:45:53 pm

Then attach the other feathers and you have a fletched arrow. This is the first time I have tried to do a how to. Hope you understand all this. Hope it will help someone out. Sorry if I posted it all wrong or in the wrong place.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: briarjumper12 on July 22, 2013, 05:38:12 pm

Nice!!!
Thank you very much. I am going to save this and use it on my next set of arrows.

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Post by: Ozzy on July 22, 2013, 07:02:18 pm

Thanks very cool

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Danzn Bar on July 22, 2013, 07:11:28 pm

Scottski,
Nice looking feather, Great job, very nice tutorial.  You make it look so easy, I've done a few also, didn't turn out as nice as yours the first time , but like any thing else it takes a little time and practice.
Thanks
DBar

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Stoker on July 22, 2013, 07:48:06 pm

Nicely done.. Make this a stickey up top.. This is the info prople look for..
Thanks Leroy

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Trapper Rob on July 22, 2013, 08:06:05 pm

Been wondering how that was done.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 22, 2013, 10:37:11 pm

Just to be clear, the piece that is spliced in still has the quill attached? You are glueing a small bit of quill on top of quill?

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 10:46:53 pm

Just the skin I strip the feather being used for the splice also.

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 22, 2013, 10:50:46 pm

Aaaaah-ha!  See the compact flourescent light bulb above my head go on?

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Scottski on July 22, 2013, 11:01:32 pm

Lol. (See figure 2) lol!!!   ;)

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Adam on July 22, 2013, 11:55:58 pm

Thanks for posting this.  It should help my arrows look not so boring. Now, if I can just keep from losing them... ;)

Title: Re: How I spliced my feathers.
Post by: Tom Leemans on July 23, 2013, 02:47:19 pm

That's about as simple as it can be explained, and simpler is better.