FEATHER FLETCHINGS
2¾" (7cm) SHIELD (not illustrated). We have these in just two colours, red and pink, but they are RIGHT WING, unlike our other fletchings, which are all left-wing. They are ideal for childrens' arrows or club arrows, but they should not be used with any of our left-wing fletchings. We are offering these at 60p per dozen, less than they cost us, but when they have gone they will be gone for good.
3" SHIELD in white, black,yellow, red, orange & blue, £1.60 doz.3 inch shield feather
4" PARABOLIC in white, black, yellow, red, green, orange & blue, £3.10 per dozen.4 inch parabolic feather

Parabolic can be changed to Shield by a simple method on our Helpful Hints and clicking on "How to make Wooden Arrows

5 inch parabolic feather
5" SHIELD For that special medieval look we stock these in white, black, bronze brown, and plain grey at £3.50 per dozen, and in grey-barred at £6.30 per dozen. They look really great!5 inch shield feather
5 inch shield grey barred feather

FLETCHING THREAD
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

FULL-LENGTH GROUND BASE FEATHERS
About 10" long, these are for cutting your own shape or to make wrap-around fru-fru arrows. Black, white, green, blue, orange, red and yellow are 45p each, and grey-barred are 65p each.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

"These top-quality 10" feathers are being discontinued by the makers and will be replaced by the shorter "commercial grade" ones at 35p each. We have got good quantities of the 10" top quality ones in stock, but when they have gone we will have only the commercial quality ones.

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!

Full length feather
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.
ADHESIVES

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 £2.50 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.


Making your own arrows? Check out our Fletching jigs.
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