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3Feathers
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wood arrows????/
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December 28, 2010, 05:34:00 PM »
Wondering if you can glue on the nock before
staining/??New at this.Stained a couple shafts with a dark leather dye and can,t tell the way the grain goes.Don,t want to put the nock on wrong.
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Re: wood arrows????/
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December 28, 2010, 05:47:00 PM »
No reason why you couldn't nock first other than the fact that you would have to be more careful not to get stain on nock. I like to stain the bare shaft to make sure I get it sealed good around where the base of the nock will be. I mark the end of the shaft with magic marker where I want the nock to be located before I stain. Then just place the nock according to my mark.
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December 28, 2010, 06:13:00 PM »
What John49 said, just use a marker. Has worked for me for a long time.
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Re: wood arrows????/
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December 28, 2010, 06:20:00 PM »
I dont cut my nock tapers till I stain and seal, then i cut the tapers and im looking at bare wood and its real easy to see the end grain.
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JRY309
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December 28, 2010, 10:37:00 PM »
When I make wood arrows,I'll cut a little V-notch at the point end for putting on the nock at the proper orientation.A V-notch will be there until I'm ready to cut and do the point taper.I used to mark it with a marker but that would sometimes disappear with the stain.
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December 28, 2010, 10:39:00 PM »
I mark them with my fingernail at the top of the taper (on the shaft body) before dipping. The little groove shows up even with the thickness of the paint. Then I just line up the nock index with the little groove.
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Re: wood arrows????/
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December 28, 2010, 11:16:00 PM »
You can glue the nocks on anytime. If you can't see the grain after staining it generally will show up after the first dip. I always mark mine with a sharpie anyway.
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December 29, 2010, 08:05:00 AM »
Since going to wood a couple of months ago I buy my shafts from Hildebrand already cut to length and tapered. I install the points and nocks and simply use painters tape over them then go ahead stain and finish.
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December 29, 2010, 10:53:00 PM »
There is more than one way to skin a cat and the same goes with making arrows. I glue the nocks on after the finish, but doing it before will work, too. You could probably sand a spot down on the point end to find the grain or re-cut the taper just a bit to find it.
Oil base stains will bring out the rift grain in a shaft, whereas the dyes seem to color everything the same.
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