[Archers] loop string nocking

[Siegfried]

More importantly, you could experiement with this same concept WITHOUT
putting a knot in the string.  You could simply tie (or whip/serve) an
auxillary loop onto the string.

This could even allow 'playing' with the concept without making a
dedicated string to the task, as if it didn't work well, you could just
remove the loop.

Or one could take an endless loop style string (with straight fibers).
Split it open in the middle, serve each half independently, then serve
them back together above/below ... leaving a perfect 'eye' in the middle
of the string.

Siegfried


On 7/16/10 9:59 AM, Allen Miller wrote:
> I do not see why that could not be tried as an experiment with the
> approval of the DEM and the EM. other wise set one up and try it on a
> non SCA range, or give me a call and come up some weekend and we will
> try it on my range. I Would be couries to see how it works and to see
> the documentation. allen ---------- Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth G. Groff
> Sent: 7/16/2010 1:41:50 PM
> To: Archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [Archers] loop string nocking
> Noble friends of the arrow,
> 
> In the Osprey book ENGLISH LONGBOWMAN 1330-1515 by Clive Bartlett there
> is a detail shot of a curious way of nocking. It uses arrows without
> nocks, instead ground to a sharp point approximating the way a modern
> arrow is tapered before the plastic nock is applied. This "nock-end
> point" is inserted into a loop tied in the bowstring. Has anyone here
> ever seen or tried this in real life?
> 
> Of course this is prohibited from an SCA range by the prohibition
> against knots in a string.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Lord Mungo Napier, Archer of Mallard Lodge
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