The Last Chance Archery Vane Master Pro is designed for use primarily with plastic vanes. Stay with feathers. Vanes are a lot tougher than modern synthetic feathers, hands down. Arrows most commonly are fletched with three feathers or vanes. Producing quality feathers fletching is difficult, time consuming and labor intensive. MILAEM 3 Inch Turkey Feather Fletching Hunting Arrow Fletches Right Wing Arrow Feathers Vanes. Add to Firstly, feathers are rather expensive. Raw material also is hand cut and inspected. There are usually three to four fletchings on an average arrow. For an added cost of only pennies an arrow, feather fletching But why use anything at all? FLETCHING BASICS`Glued near the rear of most arrows are 3 (sometimes 4) plastic vanes or feathers, arranged in an equally spaced pattern around the circumference of the shaft.These parabolic-shaped pieces of material (collectively called the "fletching") serve to steer and stabilize the arrow during flight, like fins on a rocket. Make sure the jig you want can handle the fletchings you plan to use. This is what I use for my hunting arrows. Basic 4" feathers can cost four to ten times as much as comparable vanes. But remember, archery feathers aren't a synthetic product - they are made from the primary flight feathers of Some can only handle one or the other. This is the fletching. I build all of my wood arrows with mostly turkey feathers from my turkey I get and my friends turkey wings. Nowadays, there are two types of fletchings, real or synthetic feathers and plastic vanes. They induce spin and stabilize its flight. Pour in a gallon zip loc bag, place feather end of one arrow in bag, gather bag around shaft and shake it for a few seconds. If you have feathers installed on your arrow, and you miss the target, the most likely outcome will be that your feathers are going to get destroyed. Gateway Fletching Feathers 4" Right Wing, TANGERINE. Vanes are a lot tougher than modern synthetic feathers, hands down. But feathers are not for everyone or every application. As the shaft slices through the air, the wind flows over the fletchings, which spin and help align the shaft toward your aiming point. Modern feathers have synthetic fletching, but before that people used goose feathers. Do each arrow this way. If you have feathers installed on your arrow, and you miss the target, the most likely outcome will be that your feathers are going to get destroyed. We recommend a straight clamp with some offset, or a helical clamp, for even more drag. A conventional 3 fletch jig can do a six fletch by simply first doing a regular 3 fletch, then removing the arrow, rotating 180 degrees and placing back in the jug to fletch 3 more feathers. Each feather must be inspected several times as it is processed. Fletching is both a general noun for the feather or imitation feather at the nock end of an arrow and a verb for the process of attaching that feather to the arrow. The reason for this is simple - feathers are fragile! The reason for this is simple feathers are fragile! Some fletching jigs can handle both types. 100 - Pk. ONTFIHS 100PCS 5" Shield Cut Black RW Archery Arrow Fletches Feathers Fletchings. Get the "Feather Dry" powder. Fletchings are either plastic vanes or real or synthetic feathers. Think of fletchings as propeller fins for your arrow. But the results are worth it!