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