turkey secondaries?

[JustinNC]

Eastern woodland two fletch or split them for regular fletchings?

[Pat B]

Either!

[JustinNC]

I got a lot to process. I may just leave them whole for right now until I finish processing the 5 sets/10 wings worth of primaries I have.

[sailordad]

nice haul

i have 6 full wings in the freezer yet
plus i have a road kill i am getting the feathers from tonight
not to mention i still have t hunt this year yet 

[Pat B]

Justin, save any wing feathers that are 4" to 5" long or longer and I'll show you another Native fletching style.

[JustinNC]

Other than the primaries and secondaries? The rest are pretty limp?

[Pat B]

Oh ye of little faith! 

[JustinNC]

Nay, I trust ye who is long in beard. Ok another question for ya Pat, do you like to keep a little on the back side of your two fletch at the back of the feather or do you just strip the back side clean for your two fletch?

[Pat B]

Both.     For a more traditional Native style I do like Patrick showed in his build along. I'm donating a set to the Classic to be raffled off. It is a Cherokee style locust bow with a basket quiver and Cherokee style 2fletch hill cane arrows. Only a dollar a ticket on the raffle table!

[JustinNC]

Good thing I'm as pasty pale white as a snowball in a rice bowl. Won't offend no ancestors if I don't leave any on the back. Ha, got 4 more wings and about a dozen more odd balls to split. Might leave a little on the bottoms of those.

[nclonghunter]

Justin, if you have a pair of branch trimmers, the small hand held pruning type, then take them and start cutting across the quills as high as you can get. You  can get all those feathers off without pulling and twisting and cursing and messing up those beautiful feathers. They won't look like good writing quills with the last inch or so missing, but much easier to clip them off.

[JustinNC]

That's a good idea. I've been using wire cutters.

[Buckeye Guy]

Eastern Two Fletch for Me !! Love them !!
PatB , I await your reveling of other good info !!

[JustinNC]

You want me to bring em with me next week?

[Pat B]

Buckeye, here is one option with smaller feathers. I believe it is called a tangential 3 fletch...






this is a primitive arrow James Parker gave me a few years ago with this type of fletching.