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Title: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: BarredOwl on July 09, 2014, 11:56:43 pm

When you guys are posting the dimensions of a bow and you say it is 1/2" or whatever it may be.  Is the 1/2" measured at the bottom of the string grooves or the width of the limb at the opening of string grooves?

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: KS51 on July 10, 2014, 12:03:50 am

I can't speak for everyone, but when I say 1/2" nocks, thats the width of the limb tip before the string groove is put into it.

Ken

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: Crogacht on July 10, 2014, 12:34:22 am

If someone says 1/2 inch tips, I assumed it was half an inch wide at the tips, and the grooves would be narrower.

Here's some narrow ones:

https://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=18244.0 (https://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=18244.0)

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: huisme on July 10, 2014, 01:43:10 am

Here's some more ;)

(http://i.imgur.com/MuN8K9V.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/y9iMncA.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/FGMWFUo.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/rxW5QDB.jpg)

The idea is to reduce mass as much as possible without having the tips bend (too much, sometimes they're supposed to bend). The mollegabet pretty much relies on tiny tips and "extra" work on the nocks whether they're overlays, built up at the sides more than the rest of the lever, sinew nocks, or my favorite extra-ring-self-nocks  ;D

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: Crogacht on July 10, 2014, 01:58:25 am

Ah yes, I couldn't find any of yours, but they're niiiice  ;D

My tips are still about an inch wide, too scared  :P

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: Newindian on July 10, 2014, 03:44:50 am

Quote from: Crogacht on July 10, 2014, 01:58:25 am

Ah yes, I couldn't find any of yours, but they're niiiice  ;D

My tips are still about an inch wide, too scared  :P

No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: BarredOwl on July 10, 2014, 01:26:43 pm

Thanks,  I guess I was mostly thinking in terms of nocks that are cut in from the sides as much as they would be on the top of the limb.    I don't know how important that really is but I didn't want to profile my staves out and get them too narrow at the tips and be forced to shorten them. 

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: rossfactor on July 10, 2014, 02:34:09 pm

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No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay
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I'd love to see a three sixteenth inch nock. Mine are never less than 3/8ths inch at the grooves, usually 1/2".

Gabe

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: huisme on July 10, 2014, 07:45:13 pm

Ross, the first of the nocks I posted was 1/4", the others only slightly larger and my most recent molle was also 1/4" at the base of the overlay, slightly skinnier at the nock itself. I always try to go one or two scrapes farther than I'm really comfortable with ;)

Title: Re: When you say 1/2" nocks do you mean?
Post by: Newindian on July 10, 2014, 09:10:00 pm

Quote from: rossfactor on July 10, 2014, 02:34:09 pm

No need to be I haven't made a nock wider then a quarter of an inch for a long time and most are around three sixteenth they aren't any diffrent from a wider nock except that you normally have to have a overlay
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I'd love to see a three sixteenth inch nock. Mine are never less than 3/8ths inch at the grooves, usually 1/2".

Gabe
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I just posted a bow look for "the fox"