Fletching Jig for Taped Fletching

What Is It?

Jigs that are made for glued fletching tend to rely on the open time of the glue to get things aligned, or are otherwise complicated by needing to hold the feathers in place while the glue sets.

This jig is made for simple and immediate alignment of taped fletching.

Other Parts Needed

• Required: Lowres's Fletching Clamp, without washers: https://www.printables.com/model/885031-fletching-clamp-straight

• (Optional: M4 brass inserts if you want to mount the parts onto a board)

How to Print

I recommend printing in PETG or PLA in the orientations provided

The main jig must be printed with a wide brim (10mm is good) and supports. The marker notches also act as warp-mitigation. It may still warp a little after taking it off the build plate, but that will not impact functionality.

How to Use

1. Insert nock into aligner, making sure the index markers point up.

   

2. Place arrow shaft on the main jig (and support) and make sure aligner is snug against the end.

   

3. Insert feather into fletching clamp with the feather's L shape pointing down.

   

4. Place clamp and fletching-tape spool on the work-surface.

   

5. Peel off a section of protective film on the tape spool. Roll base of feather against exposed tape, picking it up on the fether. Cut off tape at the end.

   

6. Bring clamp to desired distance marker, place flush against jig and push down onto the arrow shaft.

   

7. Remove clamp, rotate aligner with shaft, and repeat steps 3 to 6.

   

How to Modify

To make this jig fit a variety of nocks, shafts, clamps and feathers, you can adjust user parameters in the Fusion360 file.

Default values are:

• Nock Diameter = 7.7mm

• Shaft Diameter = 7.4mm

• Clamp Side Thickness = 3mm

• Feather Thickness = 1mm

• Nock Slot Width = 2.2mm

• Nock Slot Depth = 6.4mm

• Nock Length = 16mm