The desk
About the Desk
The register is a documentation desk. It reads arrow wrap film the way a standards body reads a fastener, and it sells nothing.
The State Wraps Register is a documentation desk on one narrow subject: the vinyl film wrapped around the shaft of an arrow. It reads that film the way a standards body reads a fastener, as a manufactured object with a gauge, a cut, an adhesive and a mass, and it publishes what can be read, what can be computed and what cannot be known. It sells nothing, and it says so at the foot of every page it prints.
What the desk documents
Five properties of one product, one docket each. The figures the five dockets cite are collected in the spec table, and the words they use are given in the glossary.
| Docket | The property | The two pages in it |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Film and gauge | What the film is made of, and the difference between the two ways of making it | The two films; the mass of a mil |
| 02 Length and cut | How much of the shaft the band covers, and where the cut falls | Coverage; the seam and the overlap |
| 03 Application | How the film goes on the tube and how it comes off again | Surface preparation; removal with heat |
| 04 Balance | What the film adds behind the nock, and what the paper can report | Added tail weight; flight and groups |
| 05 Patterns | What was printed on the film, and what the archive holds of it | The state designs; the hex line |
What the desk is not
It is not the shop that used this domain until 2020. That catalogue sold printed arrow wraps by the pack, and its product pages and its prices are not part of this site: no product page, no basket, no order form, no price, and no address from that business is reproduced here. The desk is not the empty shell that occupied the domain after the shop either, and nothing that shell published is inherited.
It is not an organization, a club or a person. The byline on every page is the desk, and the desk is a way of writing rather than a body of people. It is not a review site: no product is scored, recommended or compared for the purpose of purchase, because the register has no purchase to serve.
What the desk knows, and how
The evidence the register stands on is the archive of the domain: captures of the catalogue that traded here, read for what they state about film, adhesive, pack and designs. That evidence is written down, with the capture it came from, and the desk distinguishes carefully between what the archive states, what arithmetic produces, and what nobody can read any more. The rules of that distinction are on editorial standards, and the figures that survive it are in the spec table.
What the desk does not have is the film. No sheet of the catalogue is in the drawer, so no row of the table is a measurement, and the table says so row by row rather than once in a footnote. A reader who holds the film can close that gap, and the desk explains how in write to the desk.
What the desk refuses
No payment, no sponsorship, no affiliate arrangement, no exchange of links for coverage. The two tables of outgoing links the site carries are filled by the desk when it has something to point at, and they are labeled when they leave the register. Nothing on this site is placed for a fee, and a request to place it is refused.
The desk also refuses to complete a record that cannot be completed. Where the archive is silent, the register writes that it is silent. A missing figure reads as a missing figure, which is the only way a page can stay worth reading after the missing part turns up.