A friend and hunting partner of many years called me yesterday to let me know that he is selling his home and moving to a retirement community. He has not hunted for several years but still it was a shock as well as a reminder of some of the decisions I will have to make sooner or later in the coming years.

But, enough reminiscing. He asked me to come by and accept the gifting of some of his "stuff" that he would no longer be keeping.

Among those items were this fletching device that he had acquired many years ago before we had met.

Here are some pictures which are pretty much self explanatory.

Fantastic! Herters stuff is just PURE AMERICANA!

I remember those very well actually. Several of my dad's buddies had them. They are good fletching jigs.

I'm a four fletcher but I'm going to make an exception the next round. :)

Very nice gift.

That is fantastic. I bet it works great. I am still using Herter's reloading equipment. It don't wear out.>>>---> Ken

My Dad loved that company!!

Its ALMOST a copy of the Ben Pearson fletcher!!

Bob, which do you think came first?

That will probably last forever.

I picked up one a year ago at a estate sale along with 2 dozen herter's fiberglass shafts for 20.00 buck's.

Nice! Herters was/is known for quality products, used to visit their showroom in Waseca back in the day to purchase reloading supplies

very nice!

My fletcher I bought from Cabela's many years ago is an exact copy of the Herter's. The only difference is the name on the top and, if I remember, the directions are printed exactly the same also. I really like it and have no complaints.

Everything George Herter had in his catalog was the best of the best, he even said so many times. :)

I had one just like that when I first started

worked dandy

I have one of those. Now I just use the clamps when I grind wild turkey feathers on my disk sander. I bought it new.

Like PhantomWolf I had a Cabelas that was just like it saying Cabelas on the top. Picked it up at a garage sale for $5

"Herter's Perfection" LOL! Those were the days!

Nice! I’ve got that Herter’s model too.

Cabela's bought Herter's back when I worked for them. Then they marketed lots of the products that Herter's had sold.

I also have the Herters model as posted. I have to put a couple rubber bands around the clamps after they are put in the jig and against the arrow tho.

George Herter was sued many times for infringing on patents so you will see lots of things in his old catalogs that resemble others items.

I have one with the Cabelas name on it. It’ll get the job done but a bit cumbersome.

That's how I fletch my arrows, works well.

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