Try this. . I would make a video but I get stage fright).
Place feather in clamp, place clamp between knees as a support (with feather quill up).
Take roll of tape, peel the sticky stuff and cut it off maybe an inch from the end, leaving the orange stuff longer. You now have a piece of tape with the sticky portion about an inch from the end (you can see it right thru the orange if you look).
Take that tag end of orange in your left hand and lay the cut (sticky) end on the left side of the quill (do not extend beyond the quill) and push it onto the quill with your thumb.
Hold the roll with your right hand, actually with the thumb and middle finger thru the loop and your index finger guiding the tape. Pull out the needed amount and apply with right index finger.
Now, listen up, its easy to do, not easy to tell. . with left hand, grab that 1" tag section and peel it up, exposing the sticky stuff all the way to the end of the feather and then grab it with the right hand, while still holding the roll. (you can do this. . I do).
Grab a small scissors and cut the sticky stuff right at the end of the quill and then immediately cut the orange stuff about an inch away from the cut sticky, just like when you started.
No needles or anything to peel. Once you get a technique down for yourself it takes longer to put the feather in the clamp than put the tape on it.
chuckC