Just curious if anyone has ever used the 3 Rivers Pre-finished wooden Shafts and installed self nocks in them? Thanks
Yes. I used a nifty nocker from Raptor and I used the hardwood reinforcement. At the time I believe 3rivers shafts were sealed with gasket laquer and I touched up my work with poly. This was at least 8 years ago so I would confirm a compatible finish as they may use something different today.
I've made self nocks in 3Rivers cedar shafts but not finished arrows.
I think he's asking because the pre finished shafts arealready tapered for a glue on nock. By the time you are done shaping them there you can't really tell though.
You could cut off the taper and go from there. That wouldn't affect the shaft any but you would have to re-seal them.
Thanks for the replies. My concern was if I would have to reinforce with hardwood or if I could jus wrap the base of the nock with sinew, seal self nock and be good to go.
You should either wrap the self nock(I prefer sinew wrap) or add a spine(hardwood, horn, rawhide) for a reinforced self nock. Either one will work fine with prefinished shafts.