Fletching training

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This article gives tips about training the Fletching skill.

Before the Grand Exchange, the best place to train Fletching was Seers' Village
bank, as this was where most people sold their maple, yew and magic logs and
bowstrings. Because of this, there were often people buying longbows in bulk, to
alchemise for Magic experience. The most common logs and longbows traded were yews.
Not many people bought willow or lower level longbows, so it was often better to
sell these in noted form to a general store for profit. With the Grand Exchange,
many players train Fletching right at the Grand Exchange itself in order to quickly
buy and sell their required materials.

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Helpful quests
Some quests give Fletching experience as a one-time quest reward:

Animal Magnetism: 1,000 experience (lvl 1 - 9)

Big Chompy Bird Hunting: 260 experience (lvl 9 - 10)
Zogre Flesh Eaters: 2,000 experience (lvl 10 - 17)
Temple of Ikov: 8,000 experience (lvl 17 - 28)
Fremennik Trials: 2,813 experience (lvl 28 - 30)
Devious Minds: 5,000 experience
Spending experience lamps gained from quests on fletching is considered bad
practice.

Level 1-99
This section will show the time and number of either logs or unstrung bows and
bowstrings needed to reach level 99 if switching to each newly unlocked bow type
you can fletch as soon as possible, along with the amounts of the materials
involved: logs, bowstrings, unstrung bows and finished bows.

These experience rates do not account for time spent banking, i.e. the fastest xp
you can get stringing magic longbows is a bit more than 195k xp/h.

Level 1 - 25 Alternate - Iron Arrows

Fletch 2,505 Arrowshafts (167 regular Logs), attach 2,505 feathers (which will get
you past level 15, so that you can proceed), and then attach 2,505 Iron arrowtips.
This method will roughly break even.

Experience needed: 7,842

Logs needed: 167
Feather needed: 2,505
Iron arrowtips needed: 2,505
Logs cost = 3,006
Feather cost = 5,010
Iron arrowtips cost = 15,030
Iron arrows = 12,525
Total Profit/Loss = -10,521
Total experience = 9,602.5
This method actually achieves level 26 for a total of 9,602.5 xp (assuming player
is starting at level 1 with 0 xp). 5xp per 15 arrow shafts, 15 xp per 15 feathers
attached, and 37.5 xp per 15 arrowtips attached.

Level 1- 5/10 � Arrow shafts

Arrow shaft 5 The best way to get from level 1 to level 5 is by fletching arrow
shafts, which give 5 experience per log.

Experience needed: 388

Logs needed: 78
Time: 150 seconds
Logs cost = 1,404
Arrow shafts = 1,170
Total Profit/Loss = -234
Level 5-10 � Shortbows
Shortbow (u) You can now make basic shortbows which give 5 experience for fletching
or stringing them.

Experience needed: 767

Logs/Shortbows (u) needed: 153
Time: 6 minutes (fletch) or 4 minutes (string)
Logs cost = 2,754
Shortbow (u) cost = 459
Bowstrings cost = 24,786
Shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 25,245
Shortbows = 7,038
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -18,207
Per xp: -23.8
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -2,295
Per xp: -3
Level 10- 20 � Longbows
Longbow (u) You can now make basic longbows which give 10 experience for fletching
or stringing them.

Experience needed: 3,316

Logs/longbows (u) needed: 332
Time: 12 minutes (fletch) or 8 minutes (string)
Logs cost = 5,976
Longbow (u) cost = 3,652
Bow strings cost = 53,784
Longbow (u) and bow strings total = 57,436
Longbows = 21,580
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -35,856
Per xp: -10.8
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -2,324
Per xp: -0.7
Level 20 - 25 � Oak shortbows
Oak shortbow (u) You can now create oak shortbows which give 16.5 experience for
fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 4,082

Oak logs/oak shortbows (u) needed: 205
Time: 6 minutes (fletch) or 4 minutes 20 seconds (string)
Oak logs cost = 4,305
Oak shortbow (u) cost = 2,050
Bow strings cost = 33,210
Oak shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 35,260
Oak shortbows = 7,175
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -28,895
Per xp: -8.3
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -2,255
Per xp: -0.67
Level 25 - 35 � Oak longbows
Oak longbow (u) You can now make oak longbows which give 25 experience for
fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 14,564

Oak logs/oak longbows (u) needed: 583
Time: 21 minutes (fletch) or 14 minutes (string)
Oak logs cost = 12,243
Oak longbow (u) cost = 10,494
Bow strings cost = 94,446
Oak longbow (u) and bow strings total = 104,940
Oak longbows = 27,401
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -77,539
Per xp: -5.32
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -1,749
Per xp: -0.12
Level 35-40 � Willow shortbows
Willow shortbow (u) You can now make willow shortbows which give 33.3 experience
for fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 14,818

Willow logs/willow shortbows (u) needed: 446
Time: 16 minutes (fletch) or 11 minutes (string)
Willow logs cost = 7,565
Willow shortbow (u) cost = 15,575
Bow strings cost = 72,090
Willow shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 87,665
Willow shortbows = 40,940
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -46,725
Per xp: -3.13
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 8,010
Per xp: 0.54
Level 40-50 � Willow longbows
Willow longbow (u) You can now make willow longbows which give 41.5 experience for
fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 64,109

Willow logs/willow longbows (u) needed: 1,545
Time: 55 minutes (fletch) or 37 minutes (string)
Willow logs cost = 26,265
Willow longbow (u) cost = 49,440
Bow strings cost = 250,290
Willow longbow (u) and bow strings total = 299,730
Willow longbows = 200,850
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -98,880
Per xp: -1.54
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 23,175
Per xp: 0.36
Level 50-55 � Maple shortbows
Maple shortbow (u) You can now make maple shortbows which give 50 experience each
for fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 65,303

Maple logs/maple shortbows (u) needed: 1,307
Time: 47 minutes (fletch) or 32 minutes (string)
Maple logs cost = 9,149
Maple shortbow (u) cost = 71,885
Bow strings cost = 211,734
Maple shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 283,619
Maple shortbows = 261,400
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -22,219
Per xp: -0.34
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 62,736
Per xp: 0.96

Level 55-65 � Maple longbows

Maple longbow (u) You can now make maple longbows which give 58.2 Fletching
experience for fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 282,792

Maple logs/maple longbows (u) needed: 4,861
Time: 2 hours 53 minutes (fletch) or approximately 2 hours 15 minutes (string)
Maple logs cost = 33,957
Maple longbow (u) cost = 189,189
Bow strings cost = 785,862
Maple longbow (u) and bow strings total = 975,051
Maple longbows = 1,353,429
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = 378,378
Per xp: 1.34
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 155,232
Per xp: 0.55
Level 65-70 � Yew shortbows
Yew shortbow (u) You can now make yew shortbows, which give 67.5 experience for
fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 288,199

Yew logs/yew shortbows (u) needed: 4,270
Time: 2 hours 33 minutes (fletch) or 1 hour 42 minutes (string)
Yew logs cost = 713,090
Yew shortbow (u) cost = 580,720
Bow strings cost = 691,740
Yew shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 1,272,460
Yew shortbows = 1,447,530
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = 175,070
Per xp: 0.61
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -132,370
Per xp: -0.46
Level 70-80 � Yew longbows
Yew longbow (u) You can now make yew longbows which give 75 experience for
fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 1,248,441

Yew logs/yew longbows (u) needed: 16,646
Time: 9 hours 55 minutes (fletch) or 6 hours 37 minutes (string)
Experience rate: 126,000 (fletch) or 189,000 (string)
Yew logs cost = 2,779,882
Yew longbow (u) cost = 3,861,872
Bow strings cost = 2,696,652
Yew longbow (u) and bow strings total = 6,558,524
Yew longbows = 9,271,822
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = 2,713,298
Per xp: 2.17
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 1,081,990
Per xp: 0.87
Level 80-85 � Magic shortbows
Magic shortbow (u) You can now make magic shortbows which give 83.3 experience for
fletching or stringing.

Experience needed: 1,272,526

Magic logs/magic shortbows (u) needed: 15,277
Time: 9 hours 6 minutes (fletch) or 6 hours 4 minutes (string)
Experience rate: 140,000 (fletch) or 210,000 (string)
Magic logs cost = 14,674,560
Magic shortbow (u) cost = 11,495,072
Bow strings cost = 2,476,332
Magic shortbow (u) and bow strings total = 13,971,404
Magic shortbows = 13,008,386
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = -963,018
Per xp: -0.76
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = -3,179,488
Per xp: -2.5
Level 85-99 � Magic longbows
Magic longbow (u) Magic longbows are the last type of bow unlocked. They give 91.5
experience for fletching or stringing them.

Experience needed: 9,775,837

Magic logs/magic longbows (u) needed: 106,840
Time: 56 hours 26 minutes (fletch) or 38 hours 22 minutes (string)
Experience rate: 163,000 (fletch) or 210,000 (string)
Magic logs cost = 102,566,400
Magic longbow (u) cost = 104,916,880
Bow strings cost = 17,308,080
Magic longbow (u) and bow strings total = 122,224,960
Magic longbows = 138,571,480
Total Profit/Loss(stringing) = 16,346,520
Per xp: 1.67
Total Profit/Loss(fletching) = 2,350,480
Per xp: 0.24