When I was much younger, all the wood arrows that I had were painted full length. Arrows I see now have a more natural wood color. Anyone still paint theirs full length?

i dont but have seen some. for me i like wood and like to see the grain of the wood. some arrows i do just have a clear sealer others have a cap dip with cresting and stain.

to each his own

Hello Allen and welcome.

I make my own woodies and also buy from others.

I have made one set of kid's arrows that I dipped all white. I usually like clear coat from nock to point or cap dip then clearcoat. Oil based polyurethane is my choice for the clearcoat.

Not paint, but I stain mine as the mood hits me.

 

Red or natural shades.  Making up some blue currently for small-game in the snow.

I  picked up at a dollar store quarts of high visability yellow and dipped several doz shaft in it. Made great stump arrows. I miss a lot and like to find the arrows.

I paint my bunny arrows flor. orange full length so they are eaisier to find in the snow.
Denny

I liked the looks of my arrows from the late 60's to early 70's. Fully dipped either white, yellow or Sky blue.

I'm contemplating making up my next dozen with a full length white dip, fletched up with 1 white and 2 blue feathers.

Yes i paint mine white with silver and black cresting four fletched with white barred feathers these days after years of plain or stained shafts. Makes a good looking arrow but easy to lose in the snow.

Wish a carbon company made just solid yellow shaft, like the old micro shafts.

Howard Hill seemed to love those all white arrows for his movies.

I've made a few sets of all yellow, all red, and all white.  Yellow and white show up really well, but the red are too dark.

Favorite football team colors is gold and blue so I thought about making some yellow, dipped in blue on the fletch end, some blue cresting and barred yellow feathers with a blue cock feather. Plan to paint a flying WV within the cresting.

Rit dye
Blue
Still see grain but nice color
can adjust shade by nbr coats

All my Forgewoods I got through the Kittredge Bow Hut were Sky Blue or Powder Blue. You couldn't lose these arrows....although I tried like heck.

Yes, I loved those arrows from the 60's that were sky blue with grey barred and blue barred turkey feathers. I had a few of those back then. Also, it did seem like more shafts then were painted full length-especially the target arrows.    Here's some from the late 1950's/early 60's based on the Bear Razorhead style. They're forgewoods which were listed in the Bear catalogues in the 1950's.  

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Sweeeeeet Sweetlands!!!!!!

Those Sweetlands are residing in Ron LaClairs bowquiver on his 1956 dual shelf Kodiak right now. I took them to Shrewhaven this past fall and they flew like lazer beams from that vintage bow (plus they're only 28 inches to the back of point and I draw 28.5).  It's kind of like they were made for him, so they found a good home.

I paint my woodies all the time. Sometimes I stain the tops of them and paint the rest of the arrow. I like grey shafts with blue fletchings and a redwood stain for the cap. Add a hand painted white crest and finish all with 3 or 4 coats of water based poly. Iv' done black and red, all red, periwinkle blue and white, grey and white, yellow, orange and differing combos. The choices are seemingly endless. You never get tired of the same ol colors and it's a lot of fun. ENJOY!

Of course you do Knawbone...you're from "Painted Post"....  

I shot all white woodies last season; I really liked being able to see them all the way to the target. I'm looking forward to seeing one enroute to a color phase bear this coming spring.