Hello Jon, I'll attempt to make it short. Need full length feathers. cut and strip the amount of feathers you want to splice in. These I cut out the last 2". Then take the feather you want to splice in. 2" of another color. Put in a clamp, rub on sand paper till very thin, then glue it in. Easy but time consuming. Regular feathers can be used, but not always a clean fit. Then chop or burn to shape. You can splice in any where you want. When you loose or break an arrow, ouch! Try to get feathers that hve the same quill size. Have fun!