Bohning fletch tape

[A Lex]

Well I guess everyone's milage does indeed vary then.

I've used the Bohning Fletching Tape for a long time now, on a water based floor finish on my wooden arrows. I've had it up to nearly 120°F in the Northern Territory and down to about 12°F in the high country here in my home State, and have never had even the hint of an issue.

I just do my last dip coat of clear, and when it's had at least 24 hours to dry, then fletch them up, no special routines at all.

I don't rush when building arrows, but I've found it simple to use, very effective and have not even used the drop of Fletch-Tite or the like on the ends of the feather either, never found it necessary. I reckon the tape sticks like s%#t to a blanket, I love it.

Sorry if it gives some people fits, but I think it's a grand product.

The only time I've had a feather come off is if I take one or a part of one off with another hex blunt crunching into an arrow already in the target, but that's a pretty rare thing 

Best
Lex

[yaderehey]

Funny how everyone's experience can be so different.  The only fletching adhesive failure I've experienced involved Duco.  I fletched up some wood arrows one winter and shot them all summer with no problems.  I backpacked 9 miles in for an elk hunt and shortly thereafter the feathers started dropping off the shafts like autumn leaves. Very weird and incredibly frustrating.  Based on that experience I have never used Duco again, nor would I.  I refletched those arrows with tape (my first time using it) and lost a few in tall grass one summer.  Found them the next spring and the feathers were still tight.  I've pretty much used tape since with 0 failures.  For a real match made in heaven I like wraps with tape on aluminum or carbon.  I do put a dab of glue on both ends of the fletch.  But I did that when I glued feathers on as well.  It was more about the glue smoothing out the leading/trailing edge of the fletch vs. holding it in place.

[Broken Arrows]

Wraps with Fletch tape works best for me. With a dab of gel super glue on the front, end and middle of each feather.
I started using wraps because it is was easer to remove the fletching without damaging the arrow when needing to re-fletch.

[Sam McMichael]

Well, I made up these 6 arrows using glue, and it was bad. I always seem to have bad luck with glue, and this was no exception. My glue work is messy and often doesn't stick well, which is why I became interested in tape to begin with. These arrows work all right but don't look too good. Next batch will be tape all the way. I'll take a chance on the tape not holding up.

[Alexander Traditional]

Sam I'll say one thing. I've had glued on feathers that aren't sitting on the shaft properly. I don't know what you mean by your glue work is bad,but if your clamp isn't adjusted just right the tape won't hold either. I'm wondering if some that have really bad luck with tape aren't getting things with the clamp right. I really pay attention to that now,and the feathers will come off before the quill.