How do you hang your wooden shafts?

[twostrings]

I'm super excited about making my first wooden and I am about to seal them. I know I need to hang them to allow them to dry between coats, but I can't think of a way to hang them without messing with the finish. Any tricks of the trade?

Any help would be great! Pictures would be awesome.

Thank you,
mh

[Wannabe1]

Twostrings, check out my build along here on the Pow Wow. I am working a doz right now and I just hung mine with the very end hanging from a clothes pin. This is the end I taper for nock so it doesn't hurt the shaft at all.

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[Cookus]

I use a 2" piece of tape (electrical or masking) and hang them from a piece of clothes line I have in the basement specifically for  this task.   I always leave an inch "uncoated" on my uncut, raw shaft after dipping for just this purpose.

[bendbig]

I've drilled holes in a 2x10 just a little smaller and deeper then the field tip end of my arrows then just stick them in when done with each coat. I can do all 12 then place them out of the way while they dry.

Glenn

[hitman]

Even if you hang them from something like a clothespin, like I do, it won't hurt because you are going to taper 1 end for nock and other end may have to be cut off some and tapered.

[LookMomNoSights]

What bendbig said......its what I do!  Works perfecto!

[lpcjon2]

I prop them like wannabe does

[Overspined]

Nice title...

[thump]

Through the mid section of deer. But most of the time there being stored in a back quiver

[Stumpkiller]

When dipping in lacquer I use clothes pines, like Wannabe1.  But I clip on the point taper perpendicularly and lay them across a wire over a piece of newspaper.


When wiping on a Polyurethane I just lean them

[thump]

I also prop them like Wannabe between coats.

[WESTBROOK]

I have a horizontal board with cloths pins screwed to it, a trough under it to catch the drippings.

Eric

[twostrings]

Thanks guys, that is really helpful. I appreciate the pics and thread Wannabe1!

mh

[PA-Spot]

I seal them before I cut them to lenght. Screw in a verry small eye hook that I have bent into a hook. I do this to the point end so they hang up-side down. You can hold on to the eye hook when dipping. So you don't leve any marks on the shaft. Then hang them on a wire that I have on a saw horse. Place frezer paper under them to catch the drippings. Can get the hooks a Menards.

[HugeBull]

2strings, I taper the nock, then cut a thin angular saw kerf in the point end and hang this on a disposable length of fishing line.  Heavier pound test is better, cause a doz. arrows can cause quite a sag in 5# line.  When they are dry, I can cut off the kerfed end and taper for my points.  - Hugh

BTW, if you are using gasket lacquer, there is very little drip if any.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

I just lean mine against the brick wall on the veranda, the bottom ends resting on a rag.

[McGeeM]

I use a piece of scrap wood about 3 feet long and screw clothes pins to it. I space them so the shafts won't touch when they hang. Place old news paper under them to catch what drips off.

At my old house I had a pole barn and attached the board to the wall so it was out of the way when they were drying.

[Wiley Coyote]

Clothes pins.

[Mike Vines]

I cut mine to length, taper both ends, stain/paint the way I want them then I take a small binder clip and grap the point taper and dip.  Once all finish runs off and starts to just drip I hang them from a line of finish nails I have placed above a wallpaper paste tray to catch my drippings.  For the next 2 dips, I use the binder clip on the nock taper and do the same way.  In my dimented mind, allowing 2 dips with the nock up, you are getting more finish up front due to runoff which effectively gives you a little more weight up front, and a little more thickness up front to protect the shaft while target shooting.  

I like having all m y tapers ground on the shafts before finishing due to the fact that everything is weather tight, and I don't accidently grind to far into my finish runing the look of the shaft.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

A little to the left..