Yes, but not enough to affect your pin gaps at 40 yards or less. I prefer some kind of paint, have had wraps start to come loose during the cold or hot weather, and rain. Or put some glue down the seam or fletch one over the seam, but make it hard to get the wraps off.

 

Arrow wraps usually weight-in about 1 grain per inch ( or less )
Paint ( depending on amount of coats ) is about 0.4 per inch .

Either way You choose , this "extra" weight isn't going to affect your arrows enough to change POI anywhere below 40 yards ( give or take ) .

Crest away i'll say :wink: , enjoy and make sure to post a few pics. Good Luck

 

cool!

Any recommandation on the type of spray paint I should use??

 

The paint is a PIA to clean off. Just order some wraps, you won't be disappointed!

 

Might have some problems getting the vanes to stick to paint.

 

Use lacquer paints and vanes or feathers stick just well as they do to wraps or plain shafts.

 

You should check with the arrow manufacturer as to the effects of paint on the shaft. Wraps are very common, so I would go with wraps.

 

I have some basic arrows:

CARBON EXPRESS PREDATOR II 4560 29inch

how do i know WHICH WRAPS to get?? What size? Which website?


Iam still new to archery. I am not sure what are all those sizes and dimension mean. Need some advice! thanks!

 

Yes, it will add weight. Not much to effect your pin gaps, but will effect the arrows FOC. So, if a hunting arrow I don't do either. If for 3d or competition then it does not matter.

 

just my two cents carbon can become brittle from certain type of paints glues etc. there are special sprays to prep carbon for paint but it will add even that much more weight but im not a custom arrow type of guy so the fanciest i go is colors for my fletchings lol

 

I just use krylon fusion after I put my blazers on. I used to tape them off but it was kinda time consuming so I made some little cardboard sleeves to just slip over them.

 

These are some i painted,i prefer paint over wraps because you can make them any way you want. Ive used wraps to and dont notice any difference.

 

These are some i painted,i prefer paint over wraps because you can make them any way you want. Ive used wraps to and dont notice any difference. View attachment 1171338

Which spray paint do u use? Any specific procedure and suggestions on paintin it look so cool??? Thx

 

Those are very nice indeed.

 

CARBON EXPRESS PREDATOR II 4560 29inch


Which arrow wrap ican get to fit it? Which website? Thx

 

I get my wraps from battledrum on here. His website will direct you to the right wraps or you can just ask him. I like to double wrap mine becauseif i ruin a fletching the wrap peels off of another wrap very nicely and then i can just rewrap and fletch instead of fighting a wrap off. Like this:

 

When it comes time to refletch, I would think paint would be a royal pain because I dont see how it can help from scratching off where each fletching was.

The wraps I use weigh 7 grains for the full wraps but I only use partial wraps.

There are other ways to get cool looking arrows if thats your objective rather than full wraps or paint. I use just enough wrap so I can see my arrows well in the woods, and use nocks that match.

 

Paint em up...

Paint.... I just leave my everyday arrows plain but paint crest my hunting arrows.

 

There was a very informative post on here a while ago where a guy had a tutorial for painting the shafts with spray paint.

Anyone know where it is that could post a link please?

Thanks

 

Paint sucks! Fletching glue usually sticks to paint pretty well, but paint doesn't stick to saft. Most probably you end up having two vaned arrows when on contact paint looses the contact and so goes a vane.
With wraps that is much smaller broblem. At least Bohning wraps have worked great for me.

 

I'm sorry but paint is much easier to work with than wraps.
Clean the shafts properly and the paint sticks very good and it only takes a couple minutes to refletch 1 vane or feather or all three.
Also easier to get creative with paint if you really want custom arrows instead of just copies of everyone elses arrow.
And as buster said it takes only a few minutes to clean paint off and change colors if you'd like.

 

This is the only thread i have bookmarked for cresting CarlV : http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1529836

 

Here's the one I was thinking of: http://www.texastrackers.com/Videos/Arrows.wmv

 

Glad I found this thread. Looks like paint will work perfect with FOBs!

 

Paint em up

Painted shafts for hunting

 

I crested for many years. No more unless you do it for yourself. It's lots of work, and when it's time to refletch, you have to go down to the bare shaft and with the carbon arrows that are woven or whatever, you take the chance of softening the shaft using things like acetone to clean them because sometimes it takes a while depending on the paint, so you have to start by cleaning off as much of the paint before you do a final cleaning of the paint from the shaft which generally scratches up the finish on the shaft unless you're careful. Plus shaft prep before painting is a must, and some of the paint and the fletching glue doesn't work too well together either..... Since you can get really great wraps any way you want them and pretty much strip them with a hair dryer. you can guess what I do. I go to a sign shop wherre they make vinyl signs and get the scraps and cut them with a single edge razor blade and make my own wraps for little of nothing and I even have no problem getting Flex Fletch to stick to it every time.

 

i use tetors model paint before and it worked great, i dont mess with wraps or paint at all anymore it is not worth the extra effort to me when refletching. and i like to maximize my foc.

 

Thx for all the awsome inputs!!! Iwill try both wraps and spraypaint half dozen for each and seee which method is better

 

Is this worth to buy???

http://www.3riversarchery.com/Product.asp?show=rate&c=48&s=239&p=0&i=8005#full

looks pretty promising...

 

You could go a lot cheaper than that, but if you can spend it go for it....it is a nice crester for sure.

 

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