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Author Topic: Wood arrows and wraps  (Read 375 times)

Offline SELFBOW19953

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Re: Wood arrows and wraps
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2013, 08:42:00 AM »
I have not had much luck with water based fluorescent colors-they don't seem as bright,  I have not found many sources for them either.
SELFBOW19953
USAF Retired (1971-1991)
"Somehow, I feel that arrows made of wood are more in keeping with the spirit of old-time archery and require more of the archer himself than a more modern arrow."  Howard Hill from "Hunting The Hard Way"

Offline SELFBOW19953

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Re: Wood arrows and wraps
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2013, 02:04:00 PM »
An update to this post--

I went to an arts and crafts type store and found water based fluorescent paints.  I bought white, pink, and yellow.  The results for the pink are below.

   
   

Not bad, huh???  I used Min Wax waterbased polyacrylic on the shaft to seal it.  The I painted on the white base coat for the crown-the bottles of paint are too small to have enough to dip.  The next day I painted on the hot pink.  After a day I added an overcoat of Min Wax.  The following day a second coat.  Everything is waterbased, so as noted earlier by others, all the work can be done in the house.  I have been using waterbased cresting paints for several years.

I found the RGB (red, green, blue) codes for hot pink and fluorescent yellow.  I hope to find a paint store that can match the colors in an acrylic paint.
SELFBOW19953
USAF Retired (1971-1991)
"Somehow, I feel that arrows made of wood are more in keeping with the spirit of old-time archery and require more of the archer himself than a more modern arrow."  Howard Hill from "Hunting The Hard Way"

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