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swampsnyper
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From turkey feather to fletching
« Thread Started on Aug 17, 2011, 11:56am »

I take a full length right wing turkey feather and split the quill down the middle.

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Place the feather in my homemade feather grinding jig.

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Put jig on belt sander and grind it flat to about a 1/16 of an inch thick.

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Remove ground feather and Place in chopper.

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Chop feather into a finished feather ready to fletch.

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I'm new at this so any pointers would be appreciated.

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Re: From turkey feather to fletching
« Reply #1 on Aug 17, 2011, 8:33pm »

Very nice!
I have ground my own feathers for my shafts in the past and used a chopper but of the last few years I have sent them to Trueflight and Gateway for processing. Trueflight doesn't do it anymore but Gateway still does. I probably have 150 LW in Gateway 5" diecuts. They used to charge $50 per hundred.

I love your work...very good! I bet you use those on your stickbow!

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Re: From turkey feather to fletching
« Reply #2 on Aug 19, 2011, 8:30am »

Thanks stringWacker.

Cut me a sample batch to decide what I like best. Just shot all of them and a 5in shield cut over and over again with field points and vpa terminators and I can't tell a difference. I think I may go with the 4.5 in banana. Just seems more stream line. Need to test in the wind.

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Re: From turkey feather to fletching
« Reply #3 on Aug 19, 2011, 8:33am »

VPA Terminators 175gr
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Re: From turkey feather to fletching
« Reply #4 on Aug 26, 2011, 2:08pm »

Those look great and I'm sure you get lots of satisfaction from making them yourself. I have a abundance of left and right wing feathers if you ever run low email me dublelung@hotmail.com.

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