Fletching Arrows The Easy Way

[BOSE]

Hi Folks.

I have just used A Toll Gate Fletching Jig to Re Fletch my Arrows with Spin Wings but the blessed clamp you grt with it drove me bonkers,

So I just put them on by hand, and just turned the Jig Switch round to each position, worked a treat, then just a tiny bit, of waterproof tape, top and bottom of fletch, to secure them.

Job done, why struggle if you dont have to.

Cheers.
Tony.

[cestria]

Never done spinwings but thought you used jig to make pencil marks on the arrows then apply fletching by hand and eye?

[Flying Whale]

Originally Posted by cestria

Never done spinwings but thought you used jig to make pencil marks on the arrows then apply fletching by hand and eye?

That's the way I was shown

[BOSE]

Hi Folks.

Well perhaps I'm doing it right then, just couldn't get on with the clamp at all,
One of the problems is the side holding clamp magnet on The Tollgate is so strong, so everytime I tried to line The Vane up in the clamp, the magnet just wacks it, to itself, to the clamp,therefore throwing everything out of line.
Cheers.
Tony.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by cestria

Never done spinwings but thought you used jig to make pencil marks on the arrows then apply fletching by hand and eye?

There's more than one way to skin a cat...
Though putting them along a line is easier than using a jig, I find. Using a Beiter wing holder makes it easier still (or rather: easier to get allignment etc accurate).

I have known people who dispense with the pencil line as well. The argument seems to be that it's not really worth the hassle for practice arrows. Just whack the things on in more or less the right position, and that's good enough.

[morphymick]

I always use a Tollgate jig for doing my spinnies.

Place a spinwing in the clamp, as per a normal vane, with a strip of vane, the same width as the double-side tape, protruding.

Fold the protruding strip over, opposite to vane curl, and stick on a strip of tape.

Place clamp on jig and fletch as per normal.

Works for me.

Mick

[BOSE]

Hi.

These just look like ordinay Vanes with a slight bend to them, there not Kurly Vanes, so no tape include with them, you just stick them on, using Fletching Glue, as normal Vanes.
Cheers.
Tony.

[Little Miss Purple]

A bulldog clip is more manageable for spin wings etc!!

[morphymick]

Originally Posted by BOSE

Hi.

These just look like ordinay Vanes with a slight bend to them, there not Kurly Vanes, so no tape include with them, you just stick them on, using Fletching Glue, as normal Vanes.
Cheers.
Tony.

Spinwings are just like Kurly Vanes.

If they don't come with double-sided and end tape then they ain't the genuine Spinwing.

Or do you mean Quickspins?

Mick

[BOSE]

Hi Mick
I stand corrected they are NAP QUICK SPIN, NOT Spin Wings, has first,apologies all round.
Cheers.
Tony. Alias BOSE.