stripped vs. ground feathers

[Justin Snyder]

Well Ill go out on a limb. I like them ground. I find it easier to put in a clamp and the pressure is more consistent when gluing them on. Some times when you strip the thickness is not even and they don't glue as well. I also destroy a few feathers when I strip and since turkey feathers are not easy to come by here I don't like to do that.

My lazy side says strip, my CHEAP side says grind. Usually cheap wins.

[briarjumper12]

Well, here is couple pics. Out of the dozen shafts I done three with natural colored feathers and a thread wrap. The other nine I tried my hand at dyeing with rit dye and haven't wrapped them, yet.



Thanks for all the help.
I do have one more question.
Tom, I guess I wrapped in the correct direction cause I didn't have to much trouble. I done it all as a single wrap. LW feathers, point held to my left and wrapped like I would a serving starting at the front of the feather working toward the nock. Is that right or did do it backwards?