When preparing your raw shafts, do you folks taper the ends before staining and sealing or after?

I always do it after,but I have a cheap taper tool and it mars up my finishes because the diameter of the shaft has slightly increased.Because of this I can see why a power taper tool would be so handy,but I don't build enough woodies to justify one.

I taper for nock end before doing anything else like stain, crown, crest, or finish coat.
Cut to length and taper for tip is the last thing I do after all the above is done.

Guy

No, I don't. Personal preference it seems.

I always grind my nock tapers first as it is part of my shaft tapering process.  Point tapers can be done either way.  Tapering before the stain and finish is applied means you won't have a bare wood line behind the point.  I never had an issue with the hot melt glue not sticking to the finish.  Many of the arrows I build are made full length as they will be cut to length and tapered for the buyer or cut in increments for tuning.

Taper nock end then stain or paint crest.  I stain the point end after cutting.

I always taper nock end first, Then I do a 10" shaft taper on the nock end, stain, seal and crest, fletch and then last thing is cut to length and point taper.

I do both tapers and then dip and crest. Since I'm usually building them for myself, I know how long to cut them.

I cut to desired length, and taper both ends before staining or sealing. I had a hard time getting the taper tool to work properly once I had stained and sealed the shafts...it increased the diameter just enough to mess me up.

Thanks for all the great tips everyone. Think I will try tapering first and see how that goes.    

What glue for putting on the nocks?

ttt

Duco is what I have been using.

Taper both ends before dipping. Shaft is fully sealed then. Fletch-Tite for nocks.

Duco on all my arrows.

Guy

Duco also

Fletch tite or duco.

Duco, all the way! With the finish I dip with the Duco slightly dissolves the finish and welds that fletching to the shaft...it is not coming off!