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MR sidenocks
Rod:
That same Roy King piece was probably in The Glade some few years ago. Ted will know which issue.
Why a side nock? Probably so that, as with a flush nock, you don't get a hernia trying to get the loop over a nock that increases in diameter just when you are straining to make that last inch or so as you struggle to brace your war bow.
Mind, Chris Boyton once smiled as I struggled to brace a heavy bow and told me it was just a matter of timing. And proved it by effortlessly bracing a bow that was making me turn puce around the gills...
Rod.
adb:
Hi,
I was in Portsmouth this summer, and visited the Mary rose Museum. It is my understanding, from information there, that the "side nocks" exist because the staves were tillered first, and the horn nocks were added later. The side nocks were for the tillering string. No horn nocks survived, only evidence of their existance.
Thanks.
Kviljo:
They must have forgotten to update the exhibit.
The top nock, is an original MR horn nock :)
Most of the iron age longbows had sidenocks, from roman times, through the viking age, and up to the english longbow.
I've used my ~90# yew sidenocked MR-inspired longbow for a while now, and they work great together with the knot Yeobowman suggested.
sagitarius boemoru:
Rather baggy transition from nock to wood......
Jaro
alanesq:
I have just converted my 120lb longbow to side nocks (with help from kviljo) after learning of the side nock found on the Mary Rose
and I can confirm they work great :-)
I use Dacron string so the timber hitch both ends works ok for me
I suspect that the idea of the side nock is that the string also helps hold the nock onto the wood (as the groove goes right through to the wood) as they didn't have Araldite ;-)
if you cut such a deep slot both sides of the bow it would weaken it too much
btw - when using a timber hitch its almost possible to shoot the bow without any kind of nock, as the knot tightens on the taper of the bow and so doesn't slide down
so you dont need any more than a simple groove on one side just to help keep it in place
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