I am sure by now that most people know fletching isnt that great of a money maker unless you make your own bows, get your own bow strings, or craft you own nats. However, it is STILL faster than smithing. one log, one string, one nat per bow. Smithing anything that is worth alching (steel plates as an example) takes 5 steel bars which means 10 coal and 5 iron, so you have to mine all that, run to smelt the bars, and then find an anvil and make them, it all seems like too much work compared to fletching