I have shot wood arrows until recently, and fletched them with the fletching tape. I found that when it came time to strip the feathers and refletch them, the residue from the tape left a gooey mess that required elbow grease and goof off to clean them.

As I was about to fletch a couple dozen carbons that I want to try- would it be better to use the tape or the glue- giving consideration to eventually needing strip and clean the shafts to refletch?

I can forsee having to deal with the mess at some future date if I use the tape, and don't think I could get away with it as well on the carbon as I did on the wood.

would you consider using an arrow wrap?

Yup, arrow wraps make refletching a whole lot easier. I've even considered using a clear wrap on my woodies to make them easier to clean up.

Eric

Yes, had looked into them and they certainly do make cleanup easier. However I get a kick out of cresting my arrows, and don't want to go this route at present.

One can always cap-dip with clear or coloured lacquer, then glue fletches to that. This cuts down on the possibility of lifting carbon fibres
when stripping old fletches.

I cut the fletches down to the quill, then use lacquer thinner for removing the quills & old cap dip.