If I remember correctly, Styx is the main authority on this topic, as well as THE guy to send feathers to. Is this still the case or does anyone know who else to contact? I've got 3 birds worth of feathers and I'm looking to have somebody else turn them into fletching for me.

Styxx is the man.

This thread's been up for what? A few hours now? With a utility knife, a straight fletching clamp, and a sanding block, you could have had them done.

Then YOU'D be the man! Lol.

I wouldn't tell you not to spend the money...that's your choice of course and I bet Styxx is great. However, as Jeff pointed out it's really not that hard. I do not have a jig or anything fancy. I have used a belt sander, but I typically just use an orbital sander and I hold the feather with a straight Bitzenberger clamp and sand it to the finished quill base, ready to fletch.

I use RIT dye or Great Northern Dyes to get the colors I want (both work very well) and process my own. It's not fast...in fact it's very time consuming per feather and that's why you pay a premium to have someone else do it. But if you have the time, it's not hard.

I've done the straight clamp but it's easy to damage the feather. I have a great northern set up. I also use there dye. You can certainly do your own with stuff around the house. You can make a book and put sand paper inside to hold the feather and sand with what ever. It's not hard. Rooty

Raven arrows in Idaho does a great job on mine

Some people are producers, some are consumers...

Skyzz?

You can't go wrong with Todd doing your feathers. Especially if you are unable to tackle them yourself. Fast turnaround and he does a great job. JF

go to twisted stave media [clay hayes] on you tube,, he has a series of videos on making fletching from wild turky feathers and he makes and hunts with his on self bows, lots of trad info also.,.

I used a Blitz clamp for a while then made a clamp with a large hinge. Finally built a jig just like the commercial one. It was all easy but I just like to build stuff. I have ground up to a hundred at a time. I am wondering if the market for grinding is big enough to go around but I am not able to do them right now,recovering from a surgery. >>>----> Ken

Todd sent me a PM, gonna send em out when I have time. Between a 48+ hr a week job, 2 boys (8 & 3 years old), a house that we built less than a year ago, hunting season, and giving a handful of lessons, I'm lucky to have enough time to post a question about processing the feathers. Someday I will do it myself, I fletch all arrows for the 4 of us, tie my own flies, etc. Maybe someday I'll be like you retired folk and have unlimited free time, but I'm a ways from that, unfortunately...

Raven Arrows x2

Up north, I’m in the same boat with you schedule and small kid wise (also a wife who works almost as many hours as i do a week) and I just had todd do a bunch of feathers for me. His turn around is Fast and his quality is unmatched. I have done my own fletches as well but unfortunately I just don’t have the time to split and grind 100+ feathers!

Todd has done probably over 500 feathers for me now and I've never had one that was bad. He'll get my biz as long as he wants it.

If the feathers are not old and dried out you can peel them and no grinding is needed. Clamp the whole feather down solid, take a sharp blade and make a small shallow cut in the quil, them just peel the feather against the grain. You will have a very thin gluing surface that works good.

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