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Why a double grove on horn knocks

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bow-toxo:

--- Quote from: nickf on May 09, 2009, 04:41:40 pm ---I recommend the african way of stringing:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZxalsYjjMQ8/R97Voov0dyI/AAAAAAAACWo/t5bVhUal5xE/s400/Boeatsa,%2Bstringing%2Bhis%2Bbow.jpg

that's how I strng bows. But If you have a long lower horn nock, it's very likely to break off. So it's recommended to use a stringer instead. Myself, I would just make the lower horn nock pretty short. But I haven't made hornnocks, even though I will soon.

Nck

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Thanks for the post !  Now the line in a Scandinavian mediaeval poem, "he bent the bow before his knee" makes sense. On horn nocks, Lartdarcherie advises "the shorter the better, as long as the bow can be strung".

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