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Main Discussion Area => English Warbow => Topic started by: AndiE on October 22, 2014, 01:59:52 pm

Title: Laburnum nocks
Post by: AndiE on October 22, 2014, 01:59:52 pm

Hi

Today I made some special nocks for a 74" walnut warbow with 70#@32". They are made of laburnum and I hope you guys like them. I will probably make them a little bit slimmer tomorrow. The bow was shot 200 times till now with selfnocks and it shoots pretty well.

Kind regards
       Andi

PS: The pics are not in the same scale and the bow is not finished yet.

Title: Re: Laburnum nocks
Post by: WillS on October 22, 2014, 02:17:36 pm

Very nice!! What's walnut like as a warbow?

Title: Re: Laburnum nocks
Post by: AndiE on October 22, 2014, 02:55:58 pm

Hi

The sapwood looks and performs like hickory, so I built it like my hickory warbow. It doesn`t take as much set as hick.
Unfortunately I can`t test the beautiful and darker waltnut heartwood, because I don`t have a good piece of it to make a warbow.
But with walnut I miss the bacon like odor of hickory.  ;)

Kind regards
    Andi

Title: Re: Laburnum nocks
Post by: mikekeswick on October 24, 2014, 01:24:12 pm

Labernum splits as soon as you look at it! It has very little strength between the fibers. Make sure you build up the ends of your string so they don't cut into it.

Title: Re: Laburnum nocks
Post by: AndiE on October 24, 2014, 03:58:09 pm

Hi

Thanks for the advice but we already built some laburnum bows with selfnocks and we never had problems with the string.

Kind regards
     Andi