Feather Splicing...on a rainy day

There I was, faced with hurricane force winds, torrential downpours and eminent flooding.  I decided the best thing to do would be to break out the feather splicing!  This is a difficult process for beginners (trust me I am one) but it is rewarding to make a few decent looking feathers.

Basically you peel off membrane and feather to expose the quill.  The white and black on these feathers are chopped into sections and glued onto the quill of the blue feather.  It is a very delicate and exacting process and I am far from achieving suitable results, but you have to start somewhere.   I think dad would say,

"You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great."

This is the end result of trial and error and 36 full length feathers to cut up.  I have to get a feather chopper to "punch" a feather out of the these.  Then I will paint some arrows to match the fletching.

Buffalo Field Archery is putting on a 3D tournament tommorrow, hopefully the arrow will fly true and I can improve on my score.  Thanks!

Salt Grass 3D Archery Tournament

Today was the first tournament at Salt Grass Archery.  Zeke and I went out to test our skills with our recurves.  Both of us have only been shooting about a month with traditional equipment and still have a lot to learn.

The target selection was very interesting at the tournament.  We shot at several different kinds of targets that included:  deer, bears, poison dart frogs and cobra snakes.  Even a stegosaurus!

 Zeke did very well and we will be shooting another tournament very soon

This is good practice for when the buck of the lifetime finally walks out

There were 3 miniature bear targets we had to shoot at throughout the course.  These bears were about 2 ft. tall and very challenging targets.  Official Score for me was 182 on 30 targets.

My custom crested arrows preformed great. 

Arrow Building Process

The proccess of building a custom arrow requires patience and attention to detail.  I have everything I need to produce quality arrows.  I have not come up with a pattern I could not achieve yet.

Each arrow receives a base coat.  This arrow shows a silver base coat that is 9 inches long.  The primary striping color is green.  For terminology purposes:  Silver base with Green Primary Stripe.

This is the final product.  Silver base with Green Primary Stripe.  Then we added the black cap accents (Black line between green and silver) and White interior accents.

Each arrow is fletched with the same fletching set up in order to improve consistentcy.  The fletchings for this arrow are 5.5 inch high profile shield cut feathers from Trueflight.  Right wing feathers in the Green Barred Pattern.



Here is a better look at the Black Cap accents and the White Interior Accents.

This is the finished product.  Soon the arrows will be tested in the back yard like all the rest of my personal arrows.  Stay tuned for more arrows and cresting patterns.  Thanks for the visit.  If you have any questions, please email jag_custom_archery@yahoo.com.  LOOSE!

New Years Resolution

Welcome fellow archers!  This is going to be a blog about working on an adventure.  I am deeply passionate about archery and enjoy everything about it.  I want archers to be able to enjoy their arrows and be excited about them every time they reach for the quiver.  As my skills and company develops, I will be offering customized arrows.  Thanks for stopping by.