Those of you guys that spraypaint your carbon arrows instead of using wraps...what kind of paint do you guys use? How do you prepare the shaft? how many coats do you put? Do you have any problem with fletching glue?

I would like to give it a try but would hate to ruin my arrows...Thanks for the help!

I've got a whole instructional thread on it I wrote last year... let me go find it and bump it back up to the top for you...

I was wondering how much weight it added to the rear of the shaft in comparison to a wrap?

Thank you Greg!

That will be of great help

If you go through my instructional thread towards the end, you'll see where someone asked that very question. I think it's neglible at best (the difference between a wrap and two coats of spray paint); it may even be lighter -- two coats of spray paint doesn't weigh that much.

But... the results are FAR more satisfying -- to me -- than merely having a wrap on. The wrap's easier, but I've received WAY more comments from other bowhunters about my custom capping and cresting -- even in the simplistic patterns you see on my thread.

thanks for the reply I'm gonna give it a try!

I used to paint mine, it is pretty easy and doesn't take long. Greg's thread explains the how to's very well, so I won't go into it.....I used RustOLeum lacquer and I had but one problem.....The glue melted the paint off of the arrow.....It was weird....Perhaps a different glue wouldn't do it, but mine did.

Hello Greg,

Thank you, yes, I did read the whole tread and it's very interesting...

I'm not very worried about the added weight if any, my hunting arrows are kind of "front heavy" with 125 grs Slick Tricks...

If you don't mind, what glue were you using and and what other glue did you replaced with??

Thanks!

I'll add my answer to that thread so all the information will stay in one place; I know a lot of people have that thread saved in their "favorites" menu...