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sagitarius boemoru:
Just for those who make them. Notice the edge being thin, withouth dings and square to axis of the intended bowtip. Just regular cow.





 

As you can see, I cut the grooves when I put the nock on the stave, not before, to have good idea of necessary angles, but I make good surfaces and polish before I do, because the grove can be made withouth damaging the rest and by grinding and polishing the horn when its glued on the bow, the bow gets damaged, the polish gets smeared into wood grain etc. and its ugly.
This is for 125# yew bow I m making.  I have another pair with more interesting texture, and collor, I post pics in a while.

Jaro

stevesjem:
Some nice looking nocks there Jaro, you definately do good work mate, hope to see you soon.

Steve

adb:
Very nice nocks. What do you use to cut the internal tapers? Could you post a pic, or better yet, could you do a nock build-along?

sagitarius boemoru:
Oh Steve, long time no see. How are the things going  in the england ?

I just bought a house in the country, since I was sacked from my workshop, so I thought it was time to move.

So I m all bussy. Theres work to do. I also have new job.

Jaro

sagitarius boemoru:
I use flat carpenter bit 16 mm. That is longer  and bogger diameter that I need and It allows me to drill most diamateres both for sporting bows and warbows and still have good cone


This shows the tip of the bow worked down to fit in the horn. You can see there is no gap around. But this is only try out without glue, the horn is ground and polished nailed hard on plywood fake bowtip, which can be destroyed and doesnt matters.


Now some grinding and buffing and fitting


I would definitelly be better without that concave area next to nock, but this was one of bows I used to learn how to do it and I use slightly different fitting technique than back then.

Jaro

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