Making some Traditional Feathers

[hammer4reel]

Been saving wings for many years, always wanting to make some of my own fletchings.

Got a set of little choppers for Christmas, so decided to strip a few feathers down to give it a try.

Def will be grinding a bunch this week.

will be cool shooting something with feathers from a turkey I harvested with the bow, and cut myself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[not on the rug]

Nice!

[Thunderchicken]

Very cool!

[Buck154]

Nice Dan. I like how there's turkey hunting on the tv in the back

[Nomad]

Nice.  What are you going to use to grind them down?

[BowhunterNJ]

Wow that's very cool!  Can't wait to see the finished product!

[cappy]

When I was making arrows I stripped mine and used a scissor to cut the shape, don't need to be perfect, just needs to stabilize.  Of course if your going for a look then the chopper is the way to go.  I used fletch-tape instead of glue.

 

See video if interested.

 

[hammer4reel]

I have good bench belt sander. Going to grind between two strips of sheet metal.

Should take less than a minute a feather

[JHbowhunter]

Pretty cool please show the finished arrow.

[TDietz]

Nice! Undied wild turkey fletch has better natural h2o repellency than other feathers except maybe goose, which is sooo plain jane. jo-jan straight clamp works great for grinding,I always grind before chopping, but I don't think it will matter. Or, I traded a bunch of rightwing for grinding services on the matching LW one time and now I have enough to last me the rest of my life, I only use them on hunting arrows

[hammer4reel]

Nice! Undied wild turkey fletch has better natural h2o repellency than other feathers except maybe goose, which is sooo plain jane. jo-jan straight clamp works great for grinding,I always grind before chopping, but I don't think it will matter. Or, I traded a bunch of rightwing for grinding services on the matching LW one time and now I have enough to last me the rest of my life, I only use them on hunting arrows

im grinding before chopping also. had just one done that I tried the chopper out.

 

Im going to dye a few , but it sucks to degrease them as the natural oil is what makes them so much nicer 

Edited January 2, 2017 by hammer4reel

[Rusty]

Very cool Hammer.        

[LPJR]

That is very neat. You have, ummm......... a thousand percent more patience than me to do that. I always wanted to do similar.

 

Can't wait to see them completed  

[Silver Belly62]

Nice job   

Edited January 3, 2017 by Silver Belly62

[outdoorslife]

Nice Dan looking forward to seeing the finished product