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Hartung:
Sorry Mark, I only know of that one document.

markinengland:
Hartung,
I wonder if you can pull text out of a acrobat file to put into babelfish?
Nice arrows by the way. Why did you use yew for the nocks?
Have you tried fibre reinfoeced nocks? Chris Boyton showed me a way of using hemp fibre to make up a nock for shoot arrows. Simply wind the fibre arround the nocks area along with glue, Titebond works well but so would any glue. Build the nock up to a bulbous shape, allow to dry thoroughly  and then cut the nock in. This way you can use a slender shoot and still cut in a durable nock.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/MarkinEngland/arrows/DSCF0009.jpg
A picture (not very clear) of such a nock.
Mark in England

Hartung:
Mark, I just copied the first paragraph into babelfish. Works surprisingly well:

“This article has as an aim the study of a fragment of Neolithic barrel of arrow having preserved its flint point and the remainders of a binding in tendon. This object was discovered in 1843 in a site of peat digging with Zug (fig. 1).1 It acts of the oldest archaeological discovery of the canton of Zug.”

I used a bigger yew nock because the bow I’m shooting them from has a thick string from deer leg tendon. That string has broken several nocks on wild rose arrows. I know there is a big difference between wild rose and dogwood. Nevertheless, the arrow is just under 8mm in diameter, the string is between 3,5 to 4mm thick, That leaves little room for a knock wall. I hardly ever broke a self nock with regular Dacron string. String made from sinew seems to be a real self nock killer. Don’t know why. Anyway the yew nock works great and look s good  ;D.

Thanks for the tip with the hemp fibre. Have to try that one day.

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