The First Batch!!

[GWHunter]

San Jose...I just used one coat of white laquer, and made the fade with normal crylon red spray paint, then fletched!, Just be sure not to get any of the fade where you are going to be fletching or the paint will melt and the vanes will not stick worth a crap.

[kevin01]

So, the vanes will adhere on the laquer?

[BIG D]

Kevin, they bond to the laquer very well.

[Guardian Reaper]

I tried this tonight on a gold tip, it's really simple and took about 30 minutes. It looks like a coat of clear lacquer will need to go over the white and fade color, it seemed a little soft. I'll see how it is in the morning and decide to use it or not on the others. This is a really neat project to do.

[switchback]

Finally finished a batch of 8. I had a friend (Texas Grown) to help me do the first ones last year so I could watch it first hand. I watched Cotton's video but was not confident enuff at first. This is the first one's I have done myself and first time I have fletched any arrows. I used these nocks to fletch the arrows but I have luminoks for them already.

[switchback]

don't know why those pics come across fuzzy..here is one more..

[BIG D]

Those things are way too pretty to shoot out of a Mathews!!!!!!

J/K, nicely done.

[Landrover]

Wow, I had some done like that back in the 80's and much prefer to wraps! i would love to do some but I don't have any artistic skill at all!!!

[switchback]

Gw... those look great.. I am going to shoot mx 4's and lumenoks this year and they're red so I think I might do my next batch red and white like yours.

Big D.. I think I should have faded half way between where you stopped and I stopped. I like the way yours have more white.

[Shadow]

Those look pretty good. I did my first batch a few months ago.

[head]

shadow- the colors you used turned out awesome!

i know this might sound lazy, but do any of you have any 0.02 on the shrink wraps/fletchings that cabelas sells? are they ok, good, or a complete selling ploy and suck? easy to apply or not worth the trouble? i just saw them the other day on their site and wondered what the main consensus was? thanks for the tips!