Feather stripping.

[El Destructo]

 I thought that Pappys was the same as the One Dana sold/traded??

[Pappy]

Here it is,but I also use a fletching clamp and a belt sander some also.With a little practice you can get good and quick with that also.I have stripped them but like others have said I don't really like the feather,to flimsy,I guess if you were tying them on it might be OK but I use a fletching jig.
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[Pappy]

I put this in a drill press. 
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[Josh]

thanks for the pics pappy, I am building one of those this weekend now.  I am gonna have to use my belt sander instead of the drum/drill press... do you think that will be alright?  Thanks again!   

[aero86]

i put together something like that this weekend.  but it doesnt work too well with trimming with a razor!  maybe i could try my dremel.  anyways, i just used card board and some clamps.  worked pretty good.

[Pappy]

Ya, don't see why not,I have used the feather jig with an isolating sander several times and it works
great.All the wheel at the bottom dose is bottom out so you don't have to watch so close,you just run it in till it bottoms and you are there.It really turns out consisdent  feathers.  
   Pappy

[Pappy]

I split thm right down the low spot in the middle of the quill, even before I got this I used a fletching jig [old one] and a belt sander or rough piece of sand paper on a board. It worked fine.
   Pappy

[aero86]

thats how i split mine.  then i trim with scissors and then a razor blade.  do you do any trimming after splitting?  100 grit sandpaper?

[Pappy]

Not usually,I may do a little after I sand them down thin as I want,if they are to wide at the base,much easier to trim when they are thin,when they are thick it kind of like trimming a toe
nail,easy to screw up and take to much where you don't want to.
   Pappy