Washington Hunter

I currently use the Arizona E-Z Fletch and have been happy with its performance over the past several years. However, with all the recent talk of fletching your own arrows, I've been considering picking up a better fletching tool.

For those of you with personal experience with this fletching tool, is it really worth the money?

How easy is it to use compared to the E-Z Fletch?

Why is it better [or not] than the E-Z Fletch?

Will the ability to add a bit more helical to my fletching really make a significant enough difference that I'll notice?

mobow

Nope. We have Bitz's at the shop, and while they aren't junk by any mean, my Grayling at half that price is JUST as good. The main difference I have noticed is that the Grayling's helical clamp doesn't have as much helix as the Bitz, but it doesn't matter...

jmbuckhunter

Yep, Don/mobo sold me on the Grayling. I bought one and did a great job on my first try at fletching. Not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

txjourneyman

My Jo-Jan was a gift from my wife. If I were to go out and buy one I'd probably get the same thing. I like being able to do 1/2 doz. at a time. A buddy of mine has a Bitz and it is a high quality piece of equipment. That thing should last more than a lifetime. You could leave that in your will. Very well made and a solid jig. Worth the money IMO.

passthru79

I have a biltz, have straight and helical clamps for it. I go it dirt cheap, it was used but still works great. If I were to by a new one, Id probably look for something a little more reasonable in price.

Washington Hunter

The only reason I'm interested in the Bitz is because we carry them at work and I could get a discount on it. We carry another model but I can't remember which it is, whether its a Jo-Jan or a Grayling.

The Arizona works great, I'm just always interested in trying new stuff.

passthru79

I havent used any other jigs but the blitz does work very well and is easy to use. Just get one, its only money.

txjourneyman

Dan if you want to try the Jo-Jan let me know . I'll ship it to you for a few days.

bigcountry

I have ez fletch, and bitzen, and the bitzen is good if you do only one type of fletch. I shoot 2 different traditionals, and 2 different compounds. If you have to constantly adjust the bitzen, its no fun. Also can be difficult to get a real good helical. The marks on the bitzen is no good either. I even called the shop that casts them, and he even said, you got to experiment.

I would go with jo-jan. You can put a nice feather helical on with that.

TFOX

It takes me about 15 seconds to set my bitz for a hard helical for feathers.

They are worth the extra dough if you wanta jig that will be around forever.


I started a little video on how to fletch.You will se me adjust the jig.

The video was doing pretty well untill I realized I needed to clear the tip on my glue.[:@]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmqYxbZtO-I