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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Bows and arrows may not be the typical interests of most little girls, but that has never bothered Cheryl Taylor. She has even turned her life-long interest into a business venture.
“I’ve been interested in bows and such as long as I can remember,” Taylor said. “My husband bought my first compound (a bow with a system of pulleys) and that triggered something in me, and I got my first fletching jigger in ’81 and that triggered something else.”
A fletching jigger is used to hold the shaft of an arrow so that it can be feathered. At first, Taylor made arrows for herself and her friends. “I was having such a good time with it that I decided to go ahead and try to make a go of it as a business,” Taylor said.
That is how the Taylor home began to house more than Taylor, her husband, Tom, and their threeyear-old daughter, Emily. After she got her license in 1983, the house also became the headquarters for Taylor’s business, ArrowMaster.
Taylor makes and sells arrows or she sells the arrow related materials to others who want to make their own. The business is located in the basement, although it sometimes spreads into the kitchen when the basement becomes too crowded to work in.
The steps in fletching arrows begin when Taylor buys the aluminum shafts. She then de-greases them by washing them with a cleanser, and then they are allowed to air dry. The nock, or notched part for the string, is then glued on and the shaft is placed in the fletching jigger.
Depending on what the customer wants, Taylor then begins to
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