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Author Topic: Spiral Flu-Flu, made easy......w/Pix Long Bow Contributor 2007 Member # 12475 posted                        Great stuff!...Thanks Curt! -------------------- Derek W. "I never thought missing could be so much fun!" -Me Posts: 319 | From: Roseville, Michigan | Registered: May 2007  |  IP: Logged |  NightHawk Contributor 2008 Member # 731 posted                     when making them on nutters I use a thumb tack instead of a clamp. Works well on a wood shaft. I also start at the nock end and wrap down the shaft.Can make a fluflu shaft for little money cost of feather and dowle -------------------- 1) Gen. 21:20 And God was with the lad, he grew, and he dwelt in the wilderness, and he became an archer 2)The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson Posts: 1589 | From: Indiana | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  Marvin M. Contributor 2008 Member # 804 posted                     Good Tutorial Curt! You mentioned that one way the feathers lay down more. I'm with you I always want them standing up. All you have to do is wrap the opposite direction to stand them up. I use two seven inch pieces. By the time they are wrapped I have about five inches of spiral. I can get a max of about 40 yards out of an arrow that way. Marvin Posts: 1433 | From: Central Kentucky | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  Guru Admin Member # 616 posted                     On wood arrows I used to use pins also to hold the feather while the glue dried....but sometimes it was painful on the fingers getting the pins into some of those harder woods.... I find the clamp A LOT easier and faster..... -------------------- Curt } >>---> "I love you Daddy".......My son Cade while stump shooting 3/19/06 Posts: 16240 | From: NY | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  bowless Trad Bowhunter Member # 15346 posted                     Thanks Guru, I'm going to give this a try today. Excellent pictorial. -------------------- Isaiah 53:5 and with his stripes we are healed. Posts: 341 | From: MA | Registered: Feb 2008  |  IP: Logged |  Smallwood Trad Bowhunter Member # 10425 posted                     Does it matter which way you wind the feather? (ie. if it's a right wing feather wind clockwise going up the shaft, etc...) curt, were using a lw or rw feather, i couldn't tell from the pic? Posts: 1593 | From: Colorado | Registered: Oct 2006  |  IP: Logged |  Guru Admin Member # 616 posted                     SW, I was using RW. It doesn't matter LW/RW, but with either one, wrap one way and the feathers will lay back more(arrow goes further), the other way they stand up more perpendicular(arrows stop quicker). Just try a dry wrap and see which way you prefer. **********Another thing I did forget to mention...before wrapping I like to stroke the feather backward to separate the "velcro effect" of the feathers(against the grain). Make them look "ratty". Just the opposite of what you'd do to make your regular arrows look neat. It'll make wrapping them a little easier. I also separate as I wrap********* -------------------- Curt } >>---> "I love you Daddy".......My son Cade while stump shooting 3/19/06 Posts: 16240 | From: NY | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  ozarkcherrybow1 Trad Bowhunter Member # 6984 posted                     Nice pictorial, thanks for sharing. I like the spiral flu flu arrows myself......Terry Posts: 741 | From: Bella Vista Arkansas | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged |  Walt Francis Contributor 2013 Member # 1901 posted                     Curt, I use the same method as you and it works well. The only thing different I do is use the ends of feathers that are to short to use on my regular arrows. When cutting a five inch feather from the best part of a full length feather I usually have a 3 1/2" - 4 3/4' piece left, which is put on the flu-flu arrows using the same process as you. It just takes a little more time to complete the process, but uses up the scraps that would normally be thrown in the trash. As stated above, flu-flu's fletched like this will stop faster then the six fletched arrows so I use my feather burner with a straight ribbon to trim them to the desired height. Before I got extra ribbons for my feather burner I used my normal shield profile ribbon and it worked great, it just looked a little different from other I have seen. If you don't have a feather burner scissors work fine for trimming, they just take longer. -------------------- The broadhead used, regardless of how sharp, is nowhere as important as being able to place it in the correct spot. Walt Francis TGMM Family of the Bow Posts: 3189 | From: Montana | Registered: Nov 2003  |  IP: Logged |  Guru Admin Member # 616 posted                     Those are both great tips Walt .....I do have a burner, but never thought to use it, I just used scissors. From now on it'll be with the burner. Maybe even a nice rounded ball like shape...I have a lot of extra ribbon, so anythings possible.... -------------------- Curt } >>---> "I love you Daddy".......My son Cade while stump shooting 3/19/06 Posts: 16240 | From: NY | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  Charlie Lamb Charter Member/SPONSOR Member # 8 posted                     Good tutorial Curt!! My method is the same with the exception of the clamps. I use snap clothes pins and find the little curved jaws were made for this project. After fletching I use a coarse hair brush or comb to separate the individual vanes of the feather... makes em real "poofy". -------------------- Hunt Sharp Charlie A Bowhunter's Tales Posts: 9948 | From: Missouri | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged |  Charlie Lamb Charter Member/SPONSOR Member # 8 posted                     A buddy and I invented a game when we were just teens. We called it Windy Hill Dump Shooting... Dump Shooting for short. In an open field draw a circle in the dirt 5 ft in diameter. Using a good "slow" flu flu tipped with a rubber blunt shoot up in the air and try to land the arrow back in the circle or catch it without leaving the circle. -------------------- Hunt Sharp Charlie A Bowhunter's Tales Posts: 9948 | From: Missouri | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged |  K.S.TRAPPER Trad Bowhunter Member # 6950 posted                     Very nice Bud I do believe I see some Taxidermy stuff going on there in the back ground Tracy -------------------- You really haven't hunted the old fashion way until you've done it from one of these Indian houses.(The Tipi) "Glenn ST. Charles" Posts: 2502 | From: Kansas | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged |  Guru Admin Member # 616 posted                     Thanx buds! Charlie...cloths pins...why didn't I think of that Yes sir Tracy...the fur is flyin'! -------------------- Curt } >>---> "I love you Daddy".......My son Cade while stump shooting 3/19/06 Posts: 16240 | From: NY | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged |  K.S.TRAPPER Trad Bowhunter Member # 6950 posted                     Good for you my friend I'm glad to see you are finding the time to do the things that you love to do. Let me know when you get caught up bud I'm sure I could give you some more business Tracy -------------------- You really haven't hunted the old fashion way until you've done it from one of these Indian houses.(The Tipi) "Glenn ST. Charles" Posts: 2502 | From: Kansas | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged |

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