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Title: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 19, 2018, 02:18:04 pm

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.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: Pat B on May 19, 2018, 03:42:52 pm

Nice arrows, DC and the splices look good too.  :OK

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: osage outlaw on May 19, 2018, 04:26:39 pm

Very nice job on those.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 19, 2018, 04:34:10 pm

Thanks guys, arrows are really hard to photograph :D

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: penderbender on May 19, 2018, 05:07:16 pm

Those looks really good Don! I thought that point looked familiar. I gotta try that feather splicing one of these times. Cheers- Brendan

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: Aaron H on May 20, 2018, 08:08:39 am

Very nice DC

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: bjrogg on May 20, 2018, 08:43:11 am

 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

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: Knoll on May 20, 2018, 11:09:32 am

Excellent. Congrats!

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: Trapper Rob on May 20, 2018, 07:33:36 pm

They look great.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 20, 2018, 11:03:05 pm

Thanks guys, 'preciate it.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: BowEd on May 21, 2018, 09:48:55 am

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.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 21, 2018, 10:17:14 am

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.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: osage outlaw on May 21, 2018, 12:40:39 pm

Did  you grind the quills?  I found they were easier to grind than turkey feathers.  The quill seemed softer. 

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 21, 2018, 01:50:51 pm

Yes I did but I really didn't notice a difference.

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: Weylin on May 30, 2018, 10:04:17 pm

Cool! Been wanting to try them. How's their stiffness compared to turkey primaries?

Title: Re: Peacock fletched arrows
Post by: DC on May 30, 2018, 11:16:43 pm

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.