New to trad. archery and I'm going to fletch up some Ceder arrows.With carbom arrows I use loctite or gorilla super glue gel and It works great but what about Ceder arrows

It's really hard to beat fletch tape with a dab of Duco cement on front and back.

Duco cement is what I prefer.

what grapes said - fletch tape is THE way to go for ALL my fletching, both carbon and woodies.  

I like the look of the goose feathers Rob.  How well do they hold up to rain?  Are they really waterproof, or are they just like natural turkey feathers?

Duco cement is KING for woodies if you use polyurethane to finish the shafts!  If you finish your shaft with Bohning products however,  DO NOT USE THE DUCO! IT WILL NEVER DRY!

I'm not a good peeler of stuff so Duco is it for me; but it is really a personal preference thing.

Duco has served me well for many years. But as stated above DO NOT USE with Bohning products, I always use poly as a finish and it works very well.

Grapes:

They are what they are... goose feathers and as such they are almost water proof.

I will have some here in a bit as my students are starting to kill geese.  I'll send ya some if ya want.

PM me......

QuoteOriginally posted by Huntschool:
Grapes:

They are what they are... goose feathers and as such they are almost water proof.

I will have some here in a bit as my students are starting to kill geese.  I'll send ya some if ya want.

PM me......

Will do.  I just wish that the 100 or so I've plucked out of the air, I would have saved the wings.  Breast meat was awesome though.  Best way was corning it like beef.

Sorry to hijack the thread.  I now return you to the regularly scheduled thread.

THANKS FELLOWS!!

QuoteOriginally posted by Grapes:
I like the look of the goose feathers Rob.  How well do they hold up to rain?  Are they really waterproof, or are they just like natural turkey feathers?

they's REAL GOOD in wet weather, and have a high degree of natural oils, arguably more than turks since geese live and paddle in water and turks don't.

here's a 5 minute running water soak test of turk and goose fletchings ...



only draw back is the dark gray color (though a real good natural 'camo') - hard to see an arra in flight and pick out on a hit.  but heck, they're free, they work wonderfully well, and if need be i'll use a rabbit fur tracer ...

Got to love those tracers. I do the same on my turkey and goose feathers. Looks like a snow ball when they hit.

Rob have you tried the tape on the tracers with a dab of duco on the ends? Works pretty good.

Keeping the Faith!
Magnus

Well, I'm on the hunt for molted geese come next June.

Duco Cement works great on wood shafts.

I have been using Beacon 527 for the past 8+ years.  It can purchased at the big "mart" stores in the crafts section.  Bigger tube for your $$ and bonds as good or better than Duco, my second choice.

it is duco all the way on this one . i wish i could use it on aluminum .it is cheap and will work great that is my only regret on going back to aluminum .i cannot find a decent glue .we need old fletch tite

I put arrow wraps on my woodies, and everything else for that matter.......mostly solid white wraps. Then I use nothing but Goat Tuff glue for fletchings.......instant bonding and never had a feather or a vane come off. I still use Duco for nocks on woodies and hot glue for my aluminum outserts on the woodies.
Great working system that I've found. If you wanted to change fletchings very often, the fletch tape might be a better choice to be able to remove the old ones. I have yet to give that a try, but have heard good things about it.

If you go to carbons at any point, try Goat Tuff it's the best I've found and very little wait time.

depends on what you use as a crown, if it's a Bohning product use flech-tite platinum, most other brands Duco, except for wraps use the fletch-tite.

QuoteOriginally posted by Grapes:
It's really hard to beat fletch tape with a dab of Duco cement on front and back.

I use fletch tape on every type of shaft; wood, carbon or aluminum, and so far it has never failed. I have been using it for years now.