Can we start a communal turkey feathers collection/market thread?

[Razorbak66]

Thank you to @MattMan81 ! At first I thought he sent me some arrows, but it was a generous bunch of wings! Still waiting for my train transformer, the one I got in eBay didn't work so had to order a new one to complete my DIY burner. But I got the feather clean and dyed. Man, its a lot harder then the videos make it seem to trim good sections. Dyeing was easy especially when you got a bunch of kids wanting to help (as if). But I think they turn out pretty well! FYI, apparently Barbies used to be sold in tube, that's where I got the dyeing tube from. Decided to do half of them in orange, orange dye is from left over Easter egg coloring set. Wife gave me weird looks when I randomly asked to save these things as the light bulbs click on when we do stuff.

Any advices on best way to grind these? I have an old hand sander that I was thinking of making a jig stand for it. Was thinking of stealing(borrowing) my father in law old belt sander too. Never done this before. Saw a video of someone doing it manually with sand paper and that's just not for me.

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Split it then get some sandpaper and clamp on straight clamp or even 2 blocks of wood on piano hinge and put sandpaper flat surface and start sanding. You can do it with a drill press and sanding wheel but you got more control by hand and go in one direction you can also get some binder clips to add more tension/grip to the clamp

 

[BTaylor]

On a similar vane (pun intended) I would like to barter a 3D print or two for wing bones. Deboned but with flesh still on en would be fine. Zip lock in a freezer bag and send my way. PM if willing.

I had you some wings rounded up but by the time they got to me it was bad. They were not sealed up before they were boxed and shipped and flys made a mess, left babies and stank that was gag worthy for the weak stomached. I salvaged the primaries but didnt try to tackle extracting the wings bones from the goo and maggots. Sorry.

 

[BTaylor]

If anybody is looking for right wing feathers, post up.

 

[Just_Hangin_N_GA]

Let everyone else have a shot at them first because @JoyRyd sent me a set. However, if no one claims them, I will be honored to use them.

 

[gcr0003]

I had you some wings rounded up but by the time they got to me it was bad. They were not sealed up before they were boxed and shipped and flys made a mess, left babies and stank that was gag worthy for the weak stomached. I salvaged the primaries but didnt try to tackle extracting the wings bones from the goo and maggots. Sorry.

Thanks man! @BackSpasm was kind enough to clean some bones up from a Turkey he shot before sending to me. I haven’t got them yet but he said he forgot to get the small wing bone that’s used for the mouth piece. So that’s all I lack now. Would love to get two of those.