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Title: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: david janssen on April 18, 2010, 07:31:00 AM

Thinking about trying my hand at building some wood shafts.I didn't know what degree the nock and point tapers should be?

Thanks for the help,

David

Title: Re: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: R. Combs on April 18, 2010, 07:50:00 AM

Point   5 degrees

Nock    11 1/2 degrees

 Rick

Title: Re: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: Fletcher on April 18, 2010, 11:33:00 AM

Point taper at 5 deg is easy enuf to understand, but I still can't figure how we came up with 11.5 deg for the nock taper.  I'm thinking maybe it was reverse engineered.

Title: Re: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: david janssen on April 18, 2010, 05:11:00 PM

Thankyou for the help.

David

Title: Re: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: lpcjon2 on April 18, 2010, 08:47:00 PM

Rob has a thing in the "how to "  section that shows you how to make the jigs.

Title: Re: Nock and point taper degree?
Post by: outbackbowhunter on April 19, 2010, 07:59:00 PM

http://www.texasarchery.org/Documents/AMO/AMOStandards.pdf