Greetings, I'm looking to make my next set of arrows less like a late medieval "horn sliver reinforcement" type, and more like the applied horn, bone and even bronze(apparently)type of the pre/early-medieval/ "viking" era. From what I can glean, they (at least some of them) had tangs(?), and weren't hollowed out like modern applied nocks.
Anyone ever try the commercially available 3 Rivers tanged (tennon?) horn/bone nocks on WOOD arrows? I imagine they'd be great for bamboo, or hollow shafts, but I was thinking of drilling out the ends of some old wood shafts and giving it try. I'd bind/whip the area that's drilled out, of course, for strength.
They're kind of pricey though (totally worth it if I could get it to work), so I thought I'd ask if anyone had success, or knew that it was a really bad idea to even try!
Apologies if this is in the wrong section. Any thoughts, experience, warnings would be greatly appreciated.
I'm going to try to shape a drill bit to give me a hole similar to a standard modern nock, and try to do it that way too - hollow out of chunk of bone, that is, and glue it, then shape it. But the fact that evidence suggests "tangs" has got me wondering...
Topic: commercial horn and bone nocks install (Read 333 times)
