Materials required = some thin, soft leather, 1" to 2" width double stick tape (3M carpet tape), 1" length of 1/8" leather lace (or something suitable such as a piece of wooden match stick), sharp razor knife or single edge razor blade, sharp scissors.
Cut and shape one of the leather pieces as the arrow strike plate, peel back the plastic tape shield and stick on the riser. Peel back the plastic tape shield on the leather lace and place as close to the riser pivot point as possible.
Peel off the sticky tape backing on the other piece of leather and first lay it down flat on the front of the shelf, use a small stick or flat screwdriver blade to press it down right in front of, then over the leather lace, then press it down behind the leather lace. Trim off the excess leather using the sharp razor knife/blade.
 Use a bow square to determine nock point location (I prefer to nock the arrow under the nock point). Take an 8" or so length of waxed dental floss or bowstring fiber and tie a simple overhand knot at the nock point location.  Make 4 to 6 overhand knots, being sure that each knot wraps around the string and you don't have knots on top of each other - the idea is to bulk up the nock point area with your waxed fiber.   Coat the nock point with a good grade of CYA glue - make sure to get glue on all of the waxed fiber of the nock point. Here, I'm using Krazy Glue Advanced Formula CYA - $3 at most drug and hardware stores. After it dries rock hard, you can neatly trim off the ends using a razor knife/blade or nail clippers. With a little effort, you can twist this nocking point up and down the center serving to quickly adjust for arrow flight. This type of nock point weighs a fraction of a metal band nock point and will never harm the center serving, string or arrow nock. |