now that the Bo's done we're going to work on the arrows so I've got a set of six 26 inch long youth carbon bear shafts now there are some reasons why I suggest using carbon for youth arrows for one thing they're very tough now there are some downsides to carbon in that they splinter when they break but it's the same problem as fiberglass you get something that's a little tougher than fiberglass it's also a lot lighter than fiberglass now these will be able to take a little more abuse and they're a lot safer than most wood shafts and a lot of youth wood shafts are going to be on the heavier side anyway because they try to over build them another thing I like about these as opposed to the other shafting and even aluminum shafting is that these arrows are going to be more forgiving in flight and so they're going to fly better out of just about any bow and especially for the bow that we made these will fly really well so you could do what we did in the other arrow video where you actually take an existing carbon shaft and you know clean it off or you can actually buy bare shafts the only thing I did was I did remove the labels on the shafts so the first thing I'm going to do is actually spray-paint them this green color they're going to look almost identical to the the Allen arrows that we changed up and did the spray paint dip too so I'm going to do this green and then I'm going to finish off the tips with white so I'm going to go ahead paint these up and then when these are dry I'll show you what it looks like and then I'll go on to the next step now that the base coat is dried I'm going to go ahead and apply my coat of white up here once that's done I'm going to clear coat it let everything dry and then once everything is dry I'll show you what it looks and then we can get on to fletching now that the paint is dry I'm going to go ahead and Fletch this arrow the first thing I'm going to do is put a knock in these knocks just sort of slide it in there we go so I've got my fletching jig that I've used before this is my Jojen mono Fletcher and this Fletcher comes with two settings it comes with a three Fletch and a for fit for Fletch I prefer to use the four Fletch and what that does is basically that puts each of the feathers ninety degrees from each other one of the benefits to using four Fletch especially for youth arrows or for a beginner you don't have to worry about feather orientation you can shoot either side it also allows you to get the most life out of your fletchings because typically with a three Fletch your bottom feather is going to get worn down a lot faster than your other feathers with this sort of orientation you essentially have two bottom feathers and so you know basically you get more life out of it and I do prefer for Fletch if I'm letting a lot of people shoot the same bow and one of the nice things about carbon arrows is that because there isn't a particular grain orientation like there isn't wood you can shoot this right side up or upside down it really doesn't matter so to start take your first feather place it and I'm doing an alternating green sort of this lime green and black so I take my first flow of it place it into the jig clamp run to the feather plop take my fledging tape run it down the souther cut it smooth it down take the fledging tape off and I take a little bit of superglue this is Robert rubber toughen superglue that's them to the front add a drop to the back take my arrow in the jig drop the feather in place then I press the feather and jig together and then I give the superglue about 30 seconds to set alright now that it's had some time to set just go ahead take that off smooth the feather down now it can work on the next one so I'm just going to do this so you guys can see put my feather in the clap make sure it lines up in the back take the fledging tape I like to start about a quarter of an inch from the front of the feather stick it down trim off the end here about an eighth of an inch or so let's move it down remove the backing then apply some superglue to the front and a little bit to the back let me take the jig place the feather down press the feather and the arrow together and you just let it sit so I'm going to go ahead do the rest of these and I'll show you what it looks like here's the arrow finished up I went ahead and I put epoxy on the front of the feathers that will give a nice smooth transition so that it doesn't wear down the rest of the bow it also keeps the arrows the feathers from coming off and if you were to shoot this off the hand it would keep the feathers from scratching your hand or getting stuck in your hand so here it is thanks for watching I'll see you guys next time but you