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Offline DC

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Peacock fletched arrows
« on: May 19, 2018, 02:18:04 pm »
My wife spotted an ad on FB. A guy had clipped a wing on his peacock and wondered it anyone wanted them. I jumped at it, I've been looking for peacock wing feathers. I got six half feathers five of them were long enough for two fletch each but the sixth was too short. I decided to mark the cock feather with spliced on white turkey feathers. I also thought I would use a stone point(obsidian I think) that Pender Bender gave me. Thanks Brendan. Hence the two preceding posts. I've never spliced a fletch before and 3 of the 4 turned out pretty good, the fourth has a bit of a gap but it will shoot fine. Bamboo garden stake shafts. Field points are made with hard concrete nails.

Offline Pat B

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2018, 03:42:52 pm »
Nice arrows, DC and the splices look good too.  :OK
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2018, 04:26:39 pm »
Very nice job on those.
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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2018, 04:34:10 pm »
Thanks guys, arrows are really hard to photograph :D

Offline penderbender

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2018, 05:07:16 pm »
Those looks really good Don! I thought that point looked familiar. I gotta try that feather splicing one of these times. Cheers- Brendan

Offline Aaron H

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2018, 08:08:39 am »
Very nice DC

Offline bjrogg

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2018, 08:43:11 am »
 Very nice DC, I have a hard enough time gluing whole feathers on let alone splicing them. They look great and I like all the points to.
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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2018, 11:09:32 am »
Excellent. Congrats!
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2018, 07:33:36 pm »
They look great.

Offline DC

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2018, 11:03:05 pm »
Thanks guys, 'preciate it.

Offline BowEd

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2018, 09:48:55 am »
Very nicely made arrows DC.I used to raise those peacocks years and years ago.Too bad the tail feathers won't work as they molt every year in the fall.Nice natural colors to them.
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Offline DC

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2018, 10:17:14 am »
Yeah, I really like the brown that the peacock wings have. I found them really tough to split though. The knife wanted to wander instead of just splitting the quill. I had to go really slow cause I just had enough to fletch four arrows. I may have been me, I haven't done any feather splitting for quite a while.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2018, 12:40:39 pm »
Did  you grind the quills?  I found they were easier to grind than turkey feathers.  The quill seemed softer. 
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2018, 01:50:51 pm »
Yes I did but I really didn't notice a difference.

Offline Weylin

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Re: Peacock fletched arrows
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2018, 10:04:17 pm »
Cool! Been wanting to try them. How's their stiffness compared to turkey primaries?