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Offline Muleman

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Side nocks or pin (post) nocks
« on: June 28, 2022, 02:43:31 pm »
Anybody did a tutorial on either one of these type of string grooves?

Offline Del the cat

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Re: Side nocks or pin (post) nocks
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2022, 03:13:58 am »
In what context? What do you mean by a side nock... a medieval English longbow (warbow) sidenock) probably isn't what you mean.
Presumably a pin nock is like your head and shoulders with the string loop over the head and pulling on the shoulders.
Much better to have a nock overlay on the back of the bow and the string groove on the back, that avoids having a lot of waste wood that isn't doing anything on the sides of the bow at the tip.
https://bowyersdiary.blogspot.com/2012/09/final-adjustments-and-angst.html
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Offline bassman211

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Re: Side nocks or pin (post) nocks
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2022, 08:29:03 am »
Many of the native horse bow tribes cut a one side nock on the top limb for easy stringing. They would just pull up on the  low bracing string , and it would pop right into the nock. Pin nocks are short ,rounded, thin nocks. Neither is any harder to make than cutting regular nocks into a bow. I have cut them both ways, but my favorite nock is a tiny tear drop nock. Light but strong.