I posted this a while back on another thread but I know a lot of you guys don't know the history of the Blazer vane.
Myself and a bunch of other bowhunters in NE PA (When I lived in Schuylkill Co.) were shooting blazers over 10 yrs ago. I have pictures of bowkills from 1997 with "Blazers" on my arrows.
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Only they weren't CALLED Blazers and they were being made by hand one at a time by Dave Andrews at Andrews Archery in Frackville, PA.
We would go to Dave to get his "Custom Cut" vanes and they were VERY popular. They would even have the pen marks on them where they were marked for length.
Dave would take a full 5" Bohning vane (I forget the model but I think it might have been a Knife Edge vane?) and he would cut them down to the now familiar profile. Thats' where the short length combined with high back originally came from. The "Original" ones had the same profile but the production ones are a little stiffer / thicker.

Dave kept trying for years to get Bohning to just MAKE them as a production vane and I think they resisted.......finally 2 or 3 yrs ago?They gave in and I would probably think they are happy they did huh?
I remember talking to the Bohning rep at the ATA show the year they debuted about all this and him saying....."Oh yeah that guy just kept telling us we HAD to make these vanes"

I sure hope Dave is getting SOMETHING from Bohning for this design because he was the pioneer of that profile and has ultimately made Bohning a pretty penny I'm sure.