My other projects are moving forward…

I don’t know why I never agreed with arrow fletching press jigs, fancy glue, double sided tape or thread bindings. It just wasn’t the way I worked. I eyeball things a lot and adjust them bit by bit so the above tools and methods stress me out. I never got round to properly re-fletching my arrows after the rubber vanes started peeling apart. 10 years was well enough to rot those.

Last year I got turkey feather vanes which are cool because they are curved. There are L and R curves and you want to use either or, not mixed. The extra drag from feathers which are in fact stiff, plus their curve, thus spin, cause the arrow to fly truer than synthetic vanes can do and so these are sometimes used in indoor competitions even with compound bows.

So what I had was very sticky wall tack and some thin stretchy 3M tape. I set the feathers in place by eyeballing a triangle with the index feather above the nock gap, tacking it there with the too sticky wall tack. Snipped a bit of feather off the front and back of each vane so I could tape them in place. 

After winding the tape round enough times, I discovered I had shifted the whole thing off the nock gap. A slight turn with a pair of grippy pliers was all it needed. I can easily drop regular superglue on later if required but they seem quite secure as is.

My projects are a little too many for the Liew witches to stop entirely so this night, I got to fletch arrows -something I started earlier 2025.

Earlier, on YapsDiary, I invented (hopefully I was first) a peep replacement so you don’t have to squint ever again. It’s really a slip ring that’s calibrated for gravity or an offset of it thus ensuring sight to string kiss linearity. There could be a shroud around the slip ring light which can be angularly adjusted.

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I drew all the strokes of Chinese characters and am ready to image match. Also started fletching the final 3rd arrow. Swept the floors and will mop in half an hour as Dad is feeling unwell. Was supposed to run today. Maybe tomorrow morning. Looks like rain again.