I've fletched my own arrows for 40 plus years but I've never got in to cutting my own feathers.
I've stained raw shafts and fletched them but mine never looked as good as recurve's arrows..lol
Some people have a nack for it like recurve does.
Well in all fairness, I've done several hundred of them in my life. You just have to experiment with what works. Eventually you get into a groove.