String groove issues

[Skeaterbait]

I have discovered that no matter how deep I cut my string grooves, if I don't add an overlay and cut a groove across the back of the bow, my strings just simply won't stay in the groove. What's the deal?

[radius]

i like the overlays and the transverse groove, so i don't worry about it

[Hickoryswitch]

My last bow kept doin this to me. Finally I got tired of it and made them into pin nocks. Mine done it because the limbs were twisted. I like the tip overlays personally. Oh and I am in love with pin nocks. They're simple to make and they work great. Plus They're light to boot.

[Dano]

Come on Lonnie, Pictures speak a thousand words. Can't tell ya what's wrong till we see em.

[Hillbilly]

Could be too wide or the edges sanded off at too round of an angle.

[Skeaterbait]

Sorry Dano, I didn't think about pics and have already glued overlays on it. Hillbilly may have hit it though, it's a hickory backed hickory ELB for the ELB challenge, the tips are nearly perfectly round.

I am going to have to hire someone to shoot it for me though, I still haven't healed enough to pull even a light bow let alone this one. I am guessing it to come in between 60-70lbs.

[D. Tiller]

Try angling the cut inward a bit when cutting the nock to create a hollow for the string to fit in.

David T

[mullet]

  Do like David said if you are tillering with wide nocks. If you have already reduced the tips down small, you might try using a leather pocket on the tiller string . Like the ones on bow stringers. That's what I do or tie it own.

[Skeaterbait]

  Do like David said if you are tillering with wide nocks. If you have already reduced the tips down small, you might try using a leather pocket on the tiller string . Like the ones on bow stringers. That's what I do or tie it own.

 I do have leather on the tiller string but when switching to long string, the loops seem to pop off, perhaps tying them is the thing to do until brace gives the correct angle for the string.

[richpierce]

The Cherokee diamond nocks will not let a string slip.

[D. Tiller]

Rich you got a picture of the Cherokee diamond nocks?

[Hillbilly]

Tiller this is the nock style commonly used by the Cherokee and most other Eastern tribes:




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[D. Tiller]

Thanks Steve! Wonder if the less than 90 degreee angle in the notch makes the string stick better.