Well I learned somethings...it's HARD! I sure appreciate how well some of you guys do this! How do you go about lining up the cresting strips that coordinate with splice?

Sorry for the poor picture quality...too early I guess...my camera won't even focus!

You can do mine if you want. Good job.

Rick

Excellent work there!  

Snag:
Two ways to line up the cresting stripes and the splice. make the feather longer than needed, splice then cut too length measuring from the splice too both ends. Or do the splice after the arrow is fletched. It can be done the way you did it, however every measurement needs to be very precise. Its extremely important that each crest be exactly the same size and in the same location on each shaft.
My mentor use to say a true arrowsmith will not be able to tell any difference in any arrow in the dozen. Its easy to make one that looks good, not so easy to make 12 that all look the same when laid side by side.
Bob

Exactly Bob! I totally agree. I am trying to get to that point of all 12 looking the same. But I'm just learning this splicing technique..so trying not to beat myself up too much...just need to figure out how to improve. Right now my biggest obstacle is getting the splices the same width. I was thinking of taking a small ruler and attaching straight pins say at 1/2" apart. Then using this to poke into the frills to separate them at the same width....?

They look just terrible, you should send them to me before anyone else can see them!!!!..lol. Really, nice job!!!!!

Snag, make yourself a measuring board about 4 or 5 inches long it doesn't matter and put lines on it like a tape measure lay your feathers down on it to measure exactly the same size for each splice and cut with an exacto knife. I have a picture from a old TBM using the board like this. I will look for it and scan it tomorrow and e-mail it to you. Looks good above. Flint

NICE JOB.    

Thanks Flint. I'd like to see that.

I'm glad no one has said you have to count each individual frill!!!

LOL do that too sometimes 1-2 frills for a divider color

Look pretty good sir!

really sharp looking lik eit alot looks awesome!

Looks great...I'd like to try that also.

Josh

look good, what aromaker said, i like to do them after fletching so they are inline, as for not beeing able to tell a difference in a dozen well my qc will never be that strict as i would never finish a dozen.

Great looking color combo David. I tried doing them once but soon figured out it takes much more talent and patience than I posses.

Looks great. I use a paint stirring stick to make lines on with a pen and tape measure. Then cut with exacto knife. Gary

Nice work.........

Awesome job

Jer Bear