Advice needed for juniper nocks

[Aaron H]

I am currently building a sinew backed juniper bow, and I would like it to have pin nocks.  I am just a little sceptical about using fast flight with self nocks on juniper.  Your thoughts?

[wizardgoat]

Build up your string loops with some strands of Dacron to bulk them up. Also, give you nocks a nice wrapping of sinew

[Aaron H]

That's kinda what I was thinking wizard, just wrapping the nocks with some sinew.  I usually pad my fast flight strings with dacron and serve them with halo anyway.  Just wondering what everyone else does.

[Aaron H]

Also, I have a nice piece I am working with now but I am a little afraid that it will not be as wide as I need it to be. It is currently roughed out and measures 53" long but only 1 1/2" wide.  I was hoping I would end up with a piece that was 1 3/4" - 2" wide.  I plan to put 2-3 courses of sinew. Anyone think this may be a little narrow for juniper?

[TimBo]

You can still do an overlay with pin nocks.  I have some ERC that I want to get to soon, and was thinking about doing that with osage.  Check out this thread:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,45951.0.html

[Aaron H]

Yea, I agree timbo.  I guess I was just thinking that I was wanting to keep more primitive/simple or along the lines of a northwestern native style bow.  But I guess fast flight is deviating from that style quite a bit already huh? 

[JW_Halverson]

Soak the pin nocks with the very thin superglue?  That will saturate deep into the wood fibers and harden then up.  It doesn't really change the looks of the bow any, but provides a measure of resistence to the string cutting into the soft wood.

Ain't cheatin' if no one sees it happen! 

[Bryce]

your sinew should extend around and over your pin nock and they will hold up just fine

[Aaron H]

Well I was thinking of steaming in some short static recurves into each limb, and ending the sinew about 6-8" before the nocks just to reduce weight at the ends.  At the nocks I would just give it a healthy wrapping of sinew to prevent the string from gouging the soft juniper.  Those are my initial thoughts anyways, tell me if am setting myself up for failure.