[johndeer]

I have some Beman Blackmax 340's I wanna fletch with regular 4" vanes. I did one last night but it seems like every arrow I fletch at least one side or end isn't all the way against the shaft and it looks like it when I check it before I do the fletching. It is a blitz fetch. What am I doing wrong so that I can get awesome fletches?

 

[MuskyTrap]

Use an arizona fletcher and let the glue set all the way!

 

[nuts&bolts]

I have some Beman Blackmax 340's I wanna fletch with regular 4" vanes. I did one last night but it seems like every arrow I fletch at least one side or end isn't all the way against the shaft and it looks like it when I check it before I do the fletching. It is a blitz fetch. What am I doing wrong so that I can get awesome fletches?

What kind of clamp?

Straight clamp?

Helical clamp?

 

[Mark250]

We use the Bitz fletchers at the shop and for longer vanes we leave them out of the clamp about a 1/16". this will let the vane hit all the arrow when you put the clamp down on the jig and give it a little pressure. The vane will seat itself into the clamp and onto the arrow. I hold the arrow and jig and then I put the clamp down to the arrow with a little downward motion to bottom the glue part of the vane down onto the shaft. I have also seen that some of the clamps are not even and sand them ever so slightly to make them straight on the bottom again.
Are you adjusting the clamp so the vane is hitting all the arrow?

 

[johndeer]

Yeah I at least thought I had it adjusted right maybe I dont. It is a straight clamp. I'll leave the vane out a lil and try that.

 

[Elk4me]

I have a Grayling Jig which is a nylon modle of a Bitz at 2/3 the price and had the same problem leave the fletch slightly out of the clamp a 1/16th or a 1/8" LIKE ABOVE MENTIONED