Painted arrows
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Re: Painted arrows
I do have a brand-new quart of Minwax PolyCrylic water-based clear coat I bought just for this purpose, but had planned on using that over stained arrows.
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Re: Painted arrows
I see. I asked because with some finishes the fletchtite won't hold to. I know lacquer for sure requires Duco cement to fletch with if you are staying away from tape. I like tape on wood, because cement is almost impossible to get off wood shafts if you need to replace fletching.
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Re: Painted arrows
Here's my plan; paint and fletch up 4 arrows, then see if I can destroy them. Make changes as necessary.
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Re: Painted arrows
I'm thinking unless you just set out to destroy them, they should last a while. Eventually with an amount of shooting they do go bye bye but they are tougher then what many folks might think!
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Re: Painted arrows
What I meant was shoot the heck out of them and fund the weak links before fletching up the whole dozen
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Re: Painted arrows
looking good, nice job matching the color
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Re: Painted arrows
They should be easy to find in the grass, anyway.Longtrad wrote:looking good, nice job matching the color
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Careful Kirk , you'll be shootin' pink arrows before long .
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Re: Painted arrows
(shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm already shooting some of them pink-fletched arra's Jason sent my way)graps wrote:Careful Kirk , you'll be shootin' pink arrows before long .
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Re: Painted arrows
I noticed its only been pics of shafts, not the fletching!!
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