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Author Topic: Nock and point taper degree?  (Read 135 times)

Offline david janssen

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Nock and point taper degree?
« 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
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Re: Nock and point taper degree?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 07:50:00 AM »
Point   5 degrees

Nock    11 1/2 degrees

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Re: Nock and point taper degree?
« Reply #2 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.
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Offline david janssen

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Re: Nock and point taper degree?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 05:11:00 PM »
Thankyou for the help.

David
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Re: Nock and point taper degree?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Nock and point taper degree?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 07:59:00 PM »
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