Hello all, Thinking of making my first set of wood arrows. For the crown dip, should I only use paint designed for arrows ( bohning, true north, etc.) or can I use acrylic paint from a craft or hardware store?

A lot of times I just use rattle can paint from Walmart.

The arrow specific stuff is nice but I have made some that came out nice with rattle xan crown dip,Testors for creating and a couple coats of polycrylic.

I've used just about everything from stain to gasket lacquer to all types of paints. If you're only making one dozen then a rattle can spray is the way to go.

'select a paint that will be compatible with your fletching glue. I've always used a lacquer and its available in a rattle can, it dried quickly and is a durable finish. Duco sticks well too it.

Bob

Been researching this question a lot since I am about to attempt my first set of cedars.

I haven’t found an exclusive answer, seems guys have tried a lot of paints and all ha e there own results.

I have sprayed crowns in carbon with decent success

I just seems dipping would give better covage and a better finished product.

With spray I always had bare spots and would end up getting runs trying to blend them in.

I did get much better at it after Doing it several times.

I built a dip tube yesterday, roughly $9 with parts from our local hardware store.

Rusteolium enamel thinned dips fine do first coat in white to get a better color

True North is good stuff

need to have the arrow spinning to get a good job with the rattle can but does really well

On wood arrows I just use stain for the crown dip, typically Stalker stains from Lost Nation archery in Sturgis, MI. They have red, blue, orange, yellow, green, black etc..... For the cresting I use fast drying enamels, like Testors or Humboldt.

D.P.

I have been using Rustolem 2X for awhile now on carbons and woods. I rig up my Spinrite crester like in his video. Works great. I Wait overnight and crest. Then I wait a day and apply Varathane water based poly. I use NPV glue. Only caution I have. If you decide to apply more than one coat check and make sure you can in a reasonable amount of time. I had this issue with 2X.

Krylon spray paint is all I use.

I think everyone has tried about every paint made, lol, most successfully. I think more importantly is glue compatibility (adhesion) to which ever paint you use.

I have been using Rustolem 2X for awhile now on carbons and woods. I rig up my Spinrite crester like in his video. Works great. I Wait overnight and crest. Then I wait a day and apply Varathane water based poly. I use NPV glue. Only caution I have. If you decide to apply more than one coat check and make sure you can in a reasonable amount of time. I had this issue with 2X

What video?

It’s on the Spinrite website and YouTube.

Found it thank you.

M60gunner, those shafts look great. Nice job.

These are the finished arrows

These were rattle can crowned by me.

All of those are nice arrows.

Don't know if this has been mentioned but put a white base and the color you put over it will be brighter. And you can use water base paint and cut it half with water and wipe on like a stain.

Thank you for all of the suggestions!

Rustoleum 2X...fully dipped sky blue

Fully dipped white with Rustoleum 2X....

Those are awesome.

Nice!

More of my rattle can crowns on aluminum arrows.

Love the yellow and red

I have recently changed to using True North. I was using water based acrylic hobby paints, which worked well and are compatible with polyurethane. The problem was getting colors that matched the common feather colors. True North colors match the commercial feathers. Before that, I used lacquer, but I couldn't find a cresting paint that I could dip clear lacquer over, so my cresting had to be on top of the seal coat and thus, unprotected.

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