What brand of wood arrow stain and lacquer do you use?

[wapiti]

I seal with clear fletchlaq or Profin poly. The Bohning product dries faster and I can recoat sooner.Both are thin and require very little thinning to maintain that viscosity. Both give a super smooth and durable coat. I use minwax stains both as they come from the factory or mixed to acheive different colors. I also use Cabots for a different look. Sometimes I air brush the stain on to get the efffect I want. This requires a straining so no goobers are present in the stain to screw up the whole process. Once air brushed on I some times take a dry natural bristle brush to even further blend the fading of the stain onto a natural area of the shafting. Favorite colors are Red mahogany, mahogany, dark wlanut, walnut and red oak in the minwax stains. Cabots I like bark brown and a red that I am forgetting the name of right now.(could be a tile red) Oh and Cabots I use solid body stains and thin them.

[Don Stokes]

Has anyone else noticed that the Minwax penetrating stain is no longer labeled as a sealer? I wonder if the formulation was changed. It seems the same in use.

[yeager]

Alcohol based stain and gasket lacquer from 3 Rivers.

[wooddamon1]

Min-Wax stain/sealer with 2 or 3 coats of lacquer. Cap, crest, then a couple coats of Min-Wax polycrylic to protect the paint from smearing.

 

 

[WESTBROOK]

I've always used Duco with Profin & MW OB poly, never tried fletch-tite. Pretty much have to buy Duco online these days, no one has it in the stores. I think Saunders NPV will stick to about anything too.

Tip for keeping your poly from goin bad...take a propane torch and blow some gas into the can, it will settle to the bottom and force out the air...close up quick.

[hitman]

I use min wax stain, wiped on with a foam brush. If you are going to cap dip with paint do not stain. The stain will seep through the paint.

[Fletcher]

I use oil base stains, mostly because the dyes don't show the grain nearly as well.  For the sealing coats, I much prefer oil base polyurethane to water borne.  Oil base gloss put on in thin coats gives the toughest and most water resistant finish.  Daly Profin is very good, but not available in the midwest.

[M60gunner]

And yet another way. I cap dipped my shafts. Then applied pure Tung oil on rest of shaft. A few coats of that with a rubbing between has made some real smooth shafts. I used car wax over that. I am trying to keep junk from targets sticking to shafts without carrying around soap bars, Armor oil, etc.