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How To Center the Nock for the Nock Cut

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El Destructo:
Yep.....a Tile Saw Blade is perfect....even makes a round bottom....but I am a Cheap Yooper...and I make do..... ;D

Hillbilly:
They make those tools, but I just eyeball it. After you do a few it's not hard to get 'em centered.

MO Hawkeye:
I guess, my question is how do you Exactly where the center line is?  What do you use to mark and gauge it?   I don't want one side to be off even .001 of an inch.

Thanks,

Paul

mullet:
 I just cut it with my bandsaw and then file it.

Hillbilly:
If you can shoot within a thousandth of an inch, you're all alone here. You don't have to have it that close, and unless you have a laser-guided cutting machine, you're not gonna get it cut that close either, no matter how you mark it. Bottom line, it just don't have to be that close. If your nocks are way off center or really crooked, it'll affect arrow flight, but there's plenty of leeway there before it gets to that point. I doubt if carbon arrows even have a .001" consistancy. I know that the people who have relied on bows and arrows to make their living for thousands of years didn't have a space-age nock cutter. This is the primitive archer website, not the Easton factory. You can complicate things to the point that you kill the hobby you're trying to enjoy. :)

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