When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?

[BarredOwl]

When you guys are posting the dimensions of a bow and you say it is 1/2" or whatever it may be.  Is the 1/2" measured at the bottom of the string grooves or the width of the limb at the opening of string grooves?

[KS51]

I can't speak for everyone, but when I say 1/2" nocks, thats the width of the limb tip before the string groove is put into it.

Ken

[Crogacht]

If someone says 1/2 inch tips, I assumed it was half an inch wide at the tips, and the grooves would be narrower.

Here's some narrow ones:

https://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=18244.0

[huisme]

Here's some more






The idea is to reduce mass as much as possible without having the tips bend (too much, sometimes they're supposed to bend). The mollegabet pretty much relies on tiny tips and "extra" work on the nocks whether they're overlays, built up at the sides more than the rest of the lever, sinew nocks, or my favorite extra-ring-self-nocks 

[Crogacht]

Ah yes, I couldn't find any of yours, but they're niiiice 

My tips are still about an inch wide, too scared 

[Newindian]

Ah yes, I couldn't find any of yours, but they're niiiice 

My tips are still about an inch wide, too scared 

No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay

[BarredOwl]

Thanks,  I guess I was mostly thinking in terms of nocks that are cut in from the sides as much as they would be on the top of the limb.    I don't know how important that really is but I didn't want to profile my staves out and get them too narrow at the tips and be forced to shorten them. 

[rossfactor]

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No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay
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I'd love to see a three sixteenth inch nock. Mine are never less than 3/8ths inch at the grooves, usually 1/2".

Gabe

[huisme]

Ross, the first of the nocks I posted was 1/4", the others only slightly larger and my most recent molle was also 1/4" at the base of the overlay, slightly skinnier at the nock itself. I always try to go one or two scrapes farther than I'm really comfortable with

[Newindian]

No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay
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I'd love to see a three sixteenth inch nock. Mine are never less than 3/8ths inch at the grooves, usually 1/2".

Gabe
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I just posted a bow look for "the fox"