Hand Fletching Wood Arrows

Hi!

This instructable will guide you through fletching your own medieval-ish style arrow. Once completed, you will be able to use these with your favorite bow! Enjoy!

Step 1: Tools and Materials

Tools
-Utility knife
-Hack saw
-Hobby file set
-Glue
-Pencil
-Choice of wood finish
-Sandpaper (not shown)

Materials
-Waxed thread
-Arrowheads/points (I got these )
-Feather fletches (I got these from E-Bay)
-Blank shafts with appropriate spine for your bow. (I got these from E-Bay)

Comments

[35Timmy]

just a subjestion its more eco friendly if you find the feathers on the ground as shedded feathers and you could use a microscope to check for bio-safety reasons as it's at least known that it was huamanely done and then you also known it was not poached becuase especally a lot of the exotic feathers/rare feathers/feathers from protected species are more likely to be poached but ,Its not poaching if the feather was sheded cause feathers naturally come off the bird for the same reason why your hair regrows after its cut at the old barbers, Besides on the psotive side at least you have a recreation to find some feathers no promises when buying unless they say so and or they eco friendly approved by a trusted group

[35Timmy]

unless they are man-made feathers

[AJStarhiker]

My SCA group's getting more people interested in Archery. This'll help a lot.

[seby98]

Im gonna try to Drill out the end and put a threaded fixture inside of it, so i can use broad heads in it.

[fuzvulf]

great job. Sorry about the pix problem but still great job. You can pick up an older canon digital off ebay for about what you paid for your points because someone else wanted the latest and greatest. Keep up the great work!

[MMoyce]

COOL INSTRUCTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[finfan7]

You did a pretty good instructable here. But I'd recommend elaborating the step of winding between the vanes (what you call step 2) and maybe redo the pics.  I knew how this was done and can tell you that that step needs to be explained a little.
The blurriness is your worst problem in the pics. If your camera isn't great but you're good with a digital drawing program you could try: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-illustrate-your-own-Instructable/
if you aren't, try google sketch-up.  With a few days of experimenting you'll be able to make just about anything.

[RedneckEngineer]

Nicely done and documented, but you really need better pics to really make this shine like it could have.

[WSayin]

Would you say it's the resolution of the pictures, the blurriness or the lighting that needs the most work? Do you think the drawn in pointers and notes helped or did not help?

Thanks for your comments:)

[RedneckEngineer]

A little of all actually. If they were clearer then you shouldn't need to have the MSPaint drawings. It t looked as if you used a webcam or phone to take them and they aren't the best for up close shots. The notes were good but lose the drawings. Look at some of the other ibles on the front page and see the quality of the pics, you'll see what I mean.

[NachoMahma]

. +1

[Tool Using Animal]

Couldn't agree more, this would be front page/ebook material with good pix.

[zazenergy]

This is a great instructable, and I agree, some clearer photos would definitely help!