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Making 100+ arrow wraps under $15 budget

HuumanCreed

HuumanCreed

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As requested by @Red Beard . Taking my son to his first 3D course in 2 weeks. He said he wanted striped wraps so I went a little fancier then my usual plain. Else, it could have been a short. Hope you appreciate the $100,000 I spend on video equipment and editing! Haha, 3rd video I ever posted on Youtube, so sorry for the quality.


Anyway, I do not pay attention to how long, but usually 1-2 inches longer than your fletching is enough.

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I have found that 1-inch wide is perfect for standard diameter. Then take off a 1/8 or 1/16 for smaller diameters. Here are some arrows I have made. I stole some blue from my wife's supply shhhhhh!

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If you want to be uniform, I can get 12 wraps of 6 inches cut. Sometimes I do a lot longer or sometimes I have them barely providing coverage for the vanes, honestly it just depend on my mood. However, let say I only do 6 inches long wraps, a foot would give me 24 wraps. 6 feet roll is going to let me make +/-144 wraps. That is pretty good for $6. You can go crazy with the color choices too; gloss or matte, rainbow or tie dye, or patterns too. You can even use a printer and print your names or whatever. Trademark it!

I get 30 minutes break for lunch. Usually I am in my car making arrows while eating a sandwich. Here is one I made before heading into the office, will get the other done during lunch.


 

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HuumanCreed said:
As requested by @Red Beard . Taking my son to his first 3D course in 2 weeks. He said he wanted striped wraps so I went a little fancier then my usual plain. Else, it could have been a short. Hope you appreciate the $100,000 I spend on video equipment and editing! Haha, 3rd video I ever posted on Youtube, so sorry for the quality.


Anyway, I do not pay attention to how long, but usually 1-2 inches longer than your fletching is enough.

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I have found that 1-inch wide is perfect for standard diameter. Then take off a 1/8 or 1/16 for smaller diameters. Here are some arrows I have made. I stole some blue from my wife's supply shhhhhh!

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If you want to be uniform, I can get 12 wraps of 6 inches cut. Sometimes I do a lot longer or sometimes I have them barely providing coverage for the vanes, honestly it just depend on my mood. However, let say I only do 6 inches long wraps, a foot would give me 24 wraps. 6 feet roll is going to let me make +/-144 wraps. That is pretty good for $6. You can go crazy with the color choices too; gloss or matte, rainbow or tie dye, or patterns too. You can even use a printer and print your names or whatever. Trademark it!

I get 30 minutes break for lunch. Usually I am in my car making arrows while eating a sandwich. Here is one I made before heading into the office, will get the other done during lunch.


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I’ve bought rolls of stuff before and it was a fail without the straight edge slicer thing. $10 ain’t bad at all. Great write up, thanks for sharing. I will now need 2 dozen white pink and orange wraps please lol
 
Horn said:
How much do you get done in 30 minutes? You can't really wrap and fletch 6 can you? I mean you must spend at like 17 seconds on the sandwich.. :tearsofjoy: looks great!
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Wrapping literally take 5 seconds. Center console arm rest actually make a great surface to roll the arrow because its soft.

It take me less than 4 minutes an arrow. I use blue gorilla glue. About a minute each vane is enough.

I take bites in between and listen to music while the glue dry.

BUT.......there is a trade off. You will be known as the crazy guy with a bunch of arrows in his car. Most of my coworkers know this and make fun of me sometime, but once a while I would be walking and I hear " Man, I just walked passed a guy with a bunch of arrows sticking out at all directions in his car. Should I let security know?"

But if smokers can take break every hours to 'go smoke', I can do with what my allowed lunch break whatever I want.
 
HuumanCreed said:
Wrapping literally take 5 seconds. Center console arm rest actually make a great surface to roll the arrow because its soft.

It take me less than 4 minutes an arrow. I use blue gorilla glue. About a minute each vane is enough.

I take bites in between and listen to music while the glue dry.

BUT.......there is a trade off. You will be known as the crazy guy with a bunch of arrows in his car. Most of my coworkers know this and make fun of me sometime, but once a while I would be walking and I hear " Man, I just walked passed a guy with a bunch of arrows sticking out at all directions in his car. Should I let security know?"

But if smokers can take break every hours to 'go smoke', I can do with what my allowed lunch break whatever I want.
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I haven't brought arrows in much but I regularly practice knots on the handles of my machine :tearsofjoy:
 
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