what he said.

as far as the people that I know who cut own fletch they prefer the lilchopper or buy precut. the burner(smells bad, stinks, can't use in the house)but you can make your own original shapes with the burner.

From my own experience I am not really saving that much money by chopping full length feathers to my shapes. if you shoot 5" or longer feathers you can only get one prime fletch per feather. BUT if you shoot shorter you can get 2 or you can get a 3-4" fletch out of the left over from a 5". The leftovers make good beginner arrows for kids or flu-flus. I cut my own because I make some supersplice fletches, but you can supersplice with precut feathers also. It is all a matter of how much you want to do, as far as saving money goes I do not think it saves that much, but it sure is fun to shoot an arrow that you made from SOMEWHAT RAW materials.

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