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

HuumanCreed said:
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
 
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