i decided to do this yesterday. i stripped a couple arrows and gave them a wipe down with some acetone. used white lacquer as a base coat and got some flo orange and flo yellow. i liked it so much i stripped all my arrows. did a few white to flo yellow, white to flo orange, yellow to orange, white to yellow to orange. man it looks nice. got the hang of it after about 3 arrows, but i'm sure i could improve my fade. that dowel idea is great. seems like there are probably a couple hundred arrows you could do with just a few cans of $3 spray paint. i'm using fast set glue and have had no trouble at all with the glue melting the paint. i also didn't have to wait very long for things to dry. the flo paint dries in 12 minutes. i gave the lacquer a couple hours. vanes are holding no problem.

1 thing i always do, which helps my blazers or feathers or anything stick, is when i set my vane on the arrow, i slide the clamp back and forth (forwards and back). it'll only move about 1/16", but this spreads the glue and after about 3 times back and forth i leave it back. for some reason this just makes them stick almost immediately. i picked the 'nique' (short for technique, i've got lots of niques) up at a proshop and it really works.