Testing Paint for Carbon & Metal Shafts

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My neighbor is a very high quality house painter. I was talking with him yesterday about paint for arrow shafts. He was working on some metal doors for industrial/commerical use. The paint he uses is a water-based paint. But you can't hardly scratch it off with a screwdriver! It also dries extremely fast. I believe I am one step closer to providing a very high quality crown for your carbon and aluminum arrow shafts. More testing is going into compatiability of glue and cresting paint.      

[ALDO]

Looking forward to your report on testing with adhesives and cresting.
thanks
ALDO

[**DONOTDELETE**]

often times prep is as important as the material you use. I'd really like to hear about that too along with your material testing results..... kirk

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I tested some industrial paint today. The paint is made to adhere to aluminum without priming and will adhere to carbon shafts also.
I got a sample of this paint and crown dipped one aluminum and one "wood grain" carbon shaft. I cleaned both with acetone before this. I let it dry over night and today I painted some cresting lines with the TrueNorth hi-gloss enamel paint. Then I dipped one shaft in a sealer. The other shaft I glued one fletching with bohning fletching glue and the other with a superglue. Great compatiability of all products so far. I am going to make up 6 arrows and put them through the shooting test. I let you know how this goes. Should be a winner. I tried pulling the feathers off and it left the fletching base intact on the shaft!