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Offline michbowguy

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how i make 2 fletch arras..lots o pics.
« on: January 30, 2008, 08:53:12 pm »
ok here is a step by step in how i make my 2 fletch arrows, the forshafts are made just like toms darts shafts...same same.

















you dont have to have a wrap in the middle but it just makes them quieter during flight...closer to shaft, less drag, etc.
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2008, 09:36:29 pm »
 Thats sweet Jamie. Looks fairly simple and fast.    Thanks.......Keenan
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2008, 11:35:21 pm »
But how do they fly compared to a three feather Arrow?? Also the Ojibwa will use two Feathers on some Reservations...but they use the whole Feather....sinew one on each side of the Shaft...
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2008, 11:41:19 pm »
      Very nice bro' They look good ta me. Good enuf ta take huntin' ! ;) ;D...bob
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2008, 01:29:12 am »
Thanks Jamie. Two fletch is gonna be my next project.    Pat
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2008, 02:20:00 am »
Dang I went and stripped all my feathers to soon. I like that better than stripped and glued. Justin
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2008, 11:08:11 am »
Those are pretty similar to the Eastern Woodland two-feather fletch like the Cherokee, Iroquois, ans many other tribes used. I use them a good bit myself, and find that they fly as good as three-feather fletches. I usually do mine like most of the old ones and lay the helical spiral to them.
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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2008, 11:23:15 am »
Pictures Hillbilly? ;D
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2008, 12:36:33 pm »
I'll try to get some, Dana. I'm actually kinda working on an article about 'em at the moment.  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2008, 12:40:16 pm »
I only asked Hillbilly because we all know that Justin likes pictures ;)
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2008, 01:59:01 pm »
Yeah, he'll bug you to death about them high-resolution pics, won't he?  ;D Jamie, I meant to ask you-why do you wait till it's tied on to strip the other side of the quill? Good looking arrows and fletches.
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2008, 07:09:09 pm »
i dont usualy but i use ALL the birds wing feathers,some secondarys are fuller than others,some lay flatter,some look like a full tail feather.
i just grabbed into my bag of feathers,maybe i should have taken more time with matching them up.
the feathers i use to make arrows i sell or trade get more attention than my own personal ones.
but you can do it a number of ways.
jamie
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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2008, 08:59:08 pm »
That looks fairly simple Jamie - appreciate you posting your way of doing it. One of my many next projects ;).
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2008, 05:31:06 am »
is it only me who can't see the pictures?
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2008, 11:12:55 am »
Dustybear: thats possible, but in a thread of mine, I wasn`t able a day later to see all of my pics, only a few. But as was looking for an answer to my thread some time later, they were visible again.
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