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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: MO Hawkeye on March 17, 2010, 03:33:03 pm

Title: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: MO Hawkeye on March 17, 2010, 03:33:03 pm

I am am hoping there is a tool to place over the nock end of the arrow to guide in the nock cut.   I am very new at building arrows so any advice or suggestions would be helpful.

If there is NOT such a tool, how do I go about getting the cut centered?

Thanks,

Paul

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Stoker on March 17, 2010, 03:43:17 pm

I believe raptory archery has such a tool you require.
Thanks Leroy

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Mechslasher on March 17, 2010, 03:44:56 pm

no tool that i know of.  just mark the center and cut down about 1/2".  then sand to fit string.

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: El Destructo on March 17, 2010, 03:54:35 pm

I mark the centers..... then I cut them in with a 3 pack of Hacksaw Bladesn..works well for me

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: aero86 on March 17, 2010, 04:29:35 pm

or a tile saw blade.

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: El Destructo on March 17, 2010, 04:59:09 pm

Yep.....a Tile Saw Blade is perfect....even makes a round bottom....but I am a Cheap Yooper...and I make do..... ;D

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Hillbilly on March 17, 2010, 05:32:08 pm

They make those tools, but I just eyeball it. After you do a few it's not hard to get 'em centered.

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: MO Hawkeye on March 17, 2010, 05:44:54 pm

I guess, my question is how do you Exactly where the center line is?  What do you use to mark and gauge it?   I don't want one side to be off even .001 of an inch.

Thanks,

Paul

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: mullet on March 17, 2010, 06:06:33 pm

 I just cut it with my bandsaw and then file it.

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Hillbilly on March 17, 2010, 08:13:06 pm

If you can shoot within a thousandth of an inch, you're all alone here. You don't have to have it that close, and unless you have a laser-guided cutting machine, you're not gonna get it cut that close either, no matter how you mark it. Bottom line, it just don't have to be that close. If your nocks are way off center or really crooked, it'll affect arrow flight, but there's plenty of leeway there before it gets to that point. I doubt if carbon arrows even have a .001" consistancy. I know that the people who have relied on bows and arrows to make their living for thousands of years didn't have a space-age nock cutter. This is the primitive archer website, not the Easton factory. You can complicate things to the point that you kill the hobby you're trying to enjoy. :)

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Lombard on March 17, 2010, 08:50:01 pm

Just eyeball it man, and make your mark. Trust your eye, and unless your hand shakes really bad you'll be close enough.

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Justin Snyder on March 17, 2010, 09:11:42 pm

OK, I will get some pictures of my homemade tool.......  I know I said that last time, but I really will..... eventually.  ;)

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: Pappy on March 24, 2010, 08:06:39 am

There is a tool,I have one but no pictures,I will get some pictures in a day or 2.But as others have said I did it for a long time by eye.My small band saw has a groove center on the blade so sometimes
when I am in a hurry I just lay it in the blade groove and cut them that way. :)
   Pappy
   Pappy

Title: Re: How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut
Post by: cracker on March 24, 2010, 09:10:08 am

This sounds like a case of perfect being the enemy of real good.Ron