I just finished my first half dozen traditional arrows. I took up shooting traditional late last year and had begun to play with cresting. Well with nothing much else to do in my evenings, which come around 4:30pm this time of year, I decided to try crown dipping and feather splicing.

This is really pretty cool, and although I think I did a pretty easy splice it's not hard to do either.

Thought if anyone wanted an idea for killing the Winter blahs they may want to look into this hobby as well. If interested I can give details, the dipping/cresting was interesting and required a lot of research to find a best solution. Also make sure you can open a window in your shop area cause if you use certain paints/sealers the fumes will have your wife...well fuming!

I don't use a cock feather so that I can rotate the nock and wear all my feathers evenly, which extends the time between refletching, and believe me that's a real consideration when you make arrows like this.