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Pat B:
I try to place the nock just above a node but also plug the hole with either bamboo skewers or hardwood dowel before I cut the self nock. With the hole plugged you don't have to be at a node though. I also always wrap just below the nock. With a wrap you don't need to add the dowel but I do anyway.

hedgeapple:
Thanks Pat.  I had read on here about nocking ahead of the node.  But, that wouldn't work for this tomato stake.  Since I'm so new at doing any of this, drilling holes center and cutting a straight slice; I thought it would be easier to replace the nock and to destroy the cane shaft.  haha  Granted I could have made a longer nock or footed the arrow.  But those task envolve even greater skills.

stickbender:
 
     Excellent Arrow!  The Chicken feathers look great.  Ain't nothing wrong with chicken feathers.  Primitive man, used whatever feather he had at hand.  Some were preferred over others, but when they were not available for whatever reason, they used what was at hand.  You certainly seem to have the art of making arrows well in hand, and I think that is 3/4's of the archery quotient. ;D

                                                                                    Wayne

hedgeapple:
Thanks Stickbender.  I think there's alot I can improve on with arrow making.  But, it's the journey, not the distination that's important, right.

Sparrow:
 Nice ! That's a fine looking arrow.  Frank

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