Self Nock Repair?

[bubbles]

I got my first Robin Hood the other day - but that means I busted one of my arrows.   .  So I figured, rather than going through the whole she-bang once again and making another shoot shaft, to try and repair it.   Kind of like adding a footing, but on the back of the shaft.  I planed down the break to a straight angle, then glued on a little piece with TBIII.    The biggest pain was filing the nock again, because I only had a tiny sliver of space.  I'm just going to re-stain, wrap the end with linen (like I do to my self-nocks anyway) and I should be good to go. Is there a better way of doing this/ Is this a bad idea?  I think I might switch to plastic nocks for target shafts.  Easier to replace. 

[osage outlaw]

Nice repair job!

[Josh B]

Nicely done!  That's the only way I know to fix em.  Josh

[Thesquirrelslinger]

That is impressive!
I might be doing that to an ultra-light(e.g in the 7-8 gram neighborhood) arrow I made from some wierdo species of tree. Its hollow, and on the nock end its fairly thick. I intentionally cut the nock into that end.

[turtle]

Thats the way i do it also. Exept i make it so that the new nock is only cut into the new part.

[Scowler]

Never even thought of repairing a self nock that has been "Robin Hooded".  Thanks for the great idea.  Use plastic nocks if you want but I always figured that busting a few self nocked arrows every once in a while is part of the whole primitive archery experience.  I just make sure that I have alot of arrows so I don't have to replace every arrow I Robin Hood immediatly.

[RBLusthaus]

great idea and very well executed.   I will file that one away for future use.

Russ 

[twisted hickory]

Ya get an A+ on that one. She will be killin paper tomorrow.
Greg

[richardzane]

nice job, great idea.
it just happened to me a couple days ago! ..fortunately my bronze blade simply sliced ONE of the nock sides and the sinew wrap.
all i had to do was to glue the sliced nock back together and re-sinew

[BowEd]

Nice repair job bubbles.Plastic nocks bust too in fact I think more often.I just don't like the looks of plastic nocks on my arrows anyway.

[bubbles]

@turtle - that a good idea - replace the whole nock area.  so you just cut the whole nock area off at an angle and and splice in a new piece and re-cut the nock.  I'll do that next time.  A mitre saw would probably help.

I just figured when a plastic nock broke it would be easier to just glue on another one, since the arrow would probably be okay - and easy "break and replace" piece.  Just for my specific target arrows that I'm trying to shoot for groupings.  I would still use self nocks on my hunting arrows.

[Jim Davis]

Nice work on the repair. I have made that kind of repair when the back end of an arrow was split when its plastic nock was hit.

There  are folks on a certain forum, that shall remain nameless, who would get their knickers in a knot and talk about dry-fires and other heart-stopping disasters invited by repairing wood arrows. I'm glad those folks don't post here.

Jim Davis

[crooketarrow]

   Thats why I only shoot one arrow at a time.
  Perty nice patching job looks good you'll just have to try it and see.