Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: bubbles on April 16, 2013, 08:06:36 pm
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I got my first Robin Hood the other day :) - but that means I busted one of my arrows. :( . So I figured, rather than going through the whole she-bang once again and making another shoot shaft, to try and repair it. Kind of like adding a footing, but on the back of the shaft. I planed down the break to a straight angle, then glued on a little piece with TBIII. The biggest pain was filing the nock again, because I only had a tiny sliver of space. I'm just going to re-stain, wrap the end with linen (like I do to my self-nocks anyway) and I should be good to go. Is there a better way of doing this/ Is this a bad idea? I think I might switch to plastic nocks for target shafts. Easier to replace.
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Nice repair job!
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Nicely done! That's the only way I know to fix em. Josh
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That is impressive!
I might be doing that to an ultra-light(e.g in the 7-8 gram neighborhood) arrow I made from some wierdo species of tree. Its hollow, and on the nock end its fairly thick. I intentionally cut the nock into that end.
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Thats the way i do it also. Exept i make it so that the new nock is only cut into the new part.
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Never even thought of repairing a self nock that has been "Robin Hooded". Thanks for the great idea. Use plastic nocks if you want but I always figured that busting a few self nocked arrows every once in a while is part of the whole primitive archery experience. I just make sure that I have alot of arrows so I don't have to replace every arrow I Robin Hood immediatly.
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great idea and very well executed. I will file that one away for future use.
Russ
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Ya get an A+ on that one. She will be killin paper tomorrow. :)
Greg
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nice job, great idea.
it just happened to me a couple days ago! ..fortunately my bronze blade simply sliced ONE of the nock sides and the sinew wrap.
all i had to do was to glue the sliced nock back together and re-sinew
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Nice repair job bubbles.Plastic nocks bust too in fact I think more often.I just don't like the looks of plastic nocks on my arrows anyway.
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@turtle - that a good idea - replace the whole nock area. so you just cut the whole nock area off at an angle and and splice in a new piece and re-cut the nock. I'll do that next time. A mitre saw would probably help.
I just figured when a plastic nock broke it would be easier to just glue on another one, since the arrow would probably be okay - and easy "break and replace" piece. Just for my specific target arrows that I'm trying to shoot for groupings. I would still use self nocks on my hunting arrows.
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Nice work on the repair. I have made that kind of repair when the back end of an arrow was split when its plastic nock was hit.
There are folks on a certain forum, that shall remain nameless, who would get their knickers in a knot and talk about dry-fires and other heart-stopping disasters invited by repairing wood arrows. I'm glad those folks don't post here.
Jim Davis
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Thats why I only shoot one arrow at a time.
Perty nice patching job looks good you'll just have to try it and see.