It has taken me years to find a thread that was really strong but thin enough not to separate the strands of the feathers when you bound them. Only in black, 27 yards for £1.35

These are for cutting your own shape or to make wrap-around fru-fru arrows. Black, white, orange, red and yellow. Minimum 8" ones are 35p 30p each, and Minimum 9" plus are 45p 37p each

If you want to cut long feathers to your own shape you will find it very difficult, but try sticking Sellotape either side first, cut your shape with a sharp pair of scissors, and then peel the Sellotape off. What a good idea, it's easy when you know how!

ALL OUR FLETCHINGS ARE LEFT-WING. Natural feathers turn the arrow in flight, but it makes no difference whether you are left-handed or right-handed, because an arrow cannot turn until it has left the string and is away from the bow. An arrow has no memory. The only exception to this is if you are using a helical fletching jig, because you are then using the correct hand of fletching for the jig, not for the archer.

We have tried many glues, but we find that the best glue for sticking feather fletchings and plastic nocks to wood is HMG, which we stock at £2.75£2.00 per tube.

It is no good for glueing metal points onto wood, for which we recommend Araldite. You can buy this in a syringe dispenser, which saves you from getting it all over your fingers, and it gives you the correct amounts of glue and hardener. We don't stock this, never got around to it, but all DIY shops sell it.