I'm super excited about making my first wooden and I am about to seal them. I know I need to hang them to allow them to dry between coats, but I can't think of a way to hang them without messing with the finish. Any tricks of the trade?
Any help would be great! Pictures would be awesome.
Thank you,
mh
Twostrings, check out my build along here on the Pow Wow. I am working a doz right now and I just hung mine with the very end hanging from a clothes pin. This is the end I taper for nock so it doesn't hurt the shaft at all.
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I use a 2" piece of tape (electrical or masking) and hang them from a piece of clothes line I have in the basement specifically for this task. I always leave an inch "uncoated" on my uncut, raw shaft after dipping for just this purpose.
I've drilled holes in a 2x10 just a little smaller and deeper then the field tip end of my arrows then just stick them in when done with each coat. I can do all 12 then place them out of the way while they dry.
Glenn
Even if you hang them from something like a clothespin, like I do, it won't hurt because you are going to taper 1 end for nock and other end may have to be cut off some and tapered.
What bendbig said......its what I do! Works perfecto!
I prop them like wannabe does
Nice title...
Through the mid section of deer. But most of the time there being stored in a back quiver
When dipping in lacquer I use clothes pines, like Wannabe1. But I clip on the point taper perpendicularly and lay them across a wire over a piece of newspaper.
When wiping on a Polyurethane I just lean them
I also prop them like Wannabe between coats.
I have a horizontal board with cloths pins screwed to it, a trough under it to catch the drippings.
Eric
Thanks guys, that is really helpful. I appreciate the pics and thread Wannabe1!
mh
I seal them before I cut them to lenght. Screw in a verry small eye hook that I have bent into a hook. I do this to the point end so they hang up-side down. You can hold on to the eye hook when dipping. So you don't leve any marks on the shaft. Then hang them on a wire that I have on a saw horse. Place frezer paper under them to catch the drippings. Can get the hooks a Menards.
2strings, I taper the nock, then cut a thin angular saw kerf in the point end and hang this on a disposable length of fishing line. Heavier pound test is better, cause a doz. arrows can cause quite a sag in 5# line. When they are dry, I can cut off the kerfed end and taper for my points. - Hugh
BTW, if you are using gasket lacquer, there is very little drip if any.
I just lean mine against the brick wall on the veranda, the bottom ends resting on a rag.
I use a piece of scrap wood about 3 feet long and screw clothes pins to it. I space them so the shafts won't touch when they hang. Place old news paper under them to catch what drips off.
At my old house I had a pole barn and attached the board to the wall so it was out of the way when they were drying.
Clothes pins.
I cut mine to length, taper both ends, stain/paint the way I want them then I take a small binder clip and grap the point taper and dip. Once all finish runs off and starts to just drip I hang them from a line of finish nails I have placed above a wallpaper paste tray to catch my drippings. For the next 2 dips, I use the binder clip on the nock taper and do the same way. In my dimented mind, allowing 2 dips with the nock up, you are getting more finish up front due to runoff which effectively gives you a little more weight up front, and a little more thickness up front to protect the shaft while target shooting.
I like having all m y tapers ground on the shafts before finishing due to the fact that everything is weather tight, and I don't accidently grind to far into my finish runing the look of the shaft.
A little to the left.. :readit:
Clothes pins on the point end, as I always have a bit to cut off.
RonP
Prop them up against something. Simple.