Thanks Jim. Aside from explaining the helical twist, you provided by default a useful explanation of the Bohning jig's operation which was very helpful for me.  I always appreciate your sincere, friendly and informal style.

Hell yeah brother, I'm literally in the process of building some hunting arrows atm, with an extreme helical of course!!

One trick I often use is (before you glue anything) to use feather fletching tape first to see if the vane/feather placement and alignment is as I want it.
This can be useful when you're constantly building a wide variety of different arrow types, from 4.2mm up to 6.2mm or more, carbon/aluminum/wood, wraps/no wraps, different offsets, different clamps etc.

Another trick is to not seat the feather dead flat in the clamp - I leave the front and rear "sitting up" so that when you put it on, its already pressing firmly against the shaft as you push the clamp into location (just don't overdo it).

If you want feathers that stay on forever... run a thin bead of fletchtite platinum along the sides AFTER you've already attached your feathers (its like "tops/tails" on steroids).

And you can protect the front end of the feather using heatshrink tubing or by binding it with serving (then using bohning fletchtite platinum to cure it).
There are many tricks... I could go on if anyone's interested.

I have the same jig and I use fletch tape for 3 years and have been building my arrows with an extreme helical, I love how them shoot and I don't see that much loss in speed. I shoot a 55 lb reflex deflex old mountain mesa 2 longbow. This bow is fast with a smooth draw.  Shoot straight my friend, love your video's take care.

I am just getting started on this project

That looks wicked tbf. Now want to make arrows. Cheers for the vid Jim, very interesting

OMG Ive been wondering how to do this for a while now! Thanks Jim!

Excellent video Jim

Master finally gave away The Secret:) Thanks Jim

The very first time I tried fletching arrows, I had no jig so I did it by hand. I thought I could do one better and added a spiral pattern to the fletchings. They looked cool when they were done, but when I finally shot those arrows, it started dropping by 15 metres. Couldn’t go 20 metres without pointing the bow at an absurd angle. Since then, I’ve matched the same fletching angles as Jim.

After I finally figured it out, you deliver the video I've been waiting donkey's for! 🤣🤣 At least I know I'm doing right now. 👍 cheers Jim 👌

Master class. Good tips Thx

I just ordered that jig and you explained what you were doing perfectly. My compound throws a left turn on my arrows so I am going to fletch some left helical arrows up for my double bevel heads.

Thanks for sharing that secret! I tried getting "lots of helical on these, like Jim's" a few times, could never quite get it.

Great video. Guess I know what my next purchase is going to be!

Very cool thank you sir for sharing appreciate ya.  👍🏼🏹🇺🇸

I presume the trade-offs of fletch rifling pitch, are stability for target shooting, against distance, speed, & silence, which are more important in hunting.

This guy reminds me of a modern day Magnus Pike

Looking very flecthing today Grizzles ;)

/also prevents the smell of the glue when using tape.  Fred

Does right or left hand shooting determine wether you use left or right helical fletchin??