Author Topic: Eastern Two Fletch  (Read 12554 times)

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Offline organic_archer

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Re: Eastern Two Fletch
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2021, 11:12:09 pm »
I’m planning to make a dozen of these soon but had a question - It looks like you oriented the feather with the underside facing up/away from the shaft when finished. The feathers look upside down from the other builds I’ve seen here, which have the most vibrantly colored side facing up when finished, if that makes sense. Have you found this to be a better orientation? It looks like your method would create much more spin than the reverse.
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Offline Fox

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Re: Eastern Two Fletch
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2021, 01:21:38 pm »
Cory, I've only made a few of these now, but the method Donald uses seems to work really well. one arrow I fletched like this I did it so that the shiny top of the feather was facing away from the shaft, it didn't really work because it made the feathers kinda curl together and touch a little bit? hard to explain just go and take to feathers and put them together shiny side touching and then not shiny side and you'll see what I mean
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