resulted in a deep grip with sharp dips fading into the limbs.This grip is usually leather covered. There are, however,many ideas as to grip shapes, some of them quite fancy in-deed.
Horn nocks are no longer used. The prevailing design isa reinforcement of fibre on the back at the tip ends of thelimbs with a rather simple notch carved there. It was foundthat any extra weight in the limbs slowed up the action. Itcannot be denied that those elaborate horn nocks did addsome extra weight. Fig. 10 illustrates some nock designs.
The general design of the modified flat bow follows thefundamental principles as shown in Fig. 1 and 2. Bow stringsare still made of linen but rayon thread called fortisan hasbeen added to the list of string materials. Modern stringshave hand laid loops at each end. These strings must be madewith great accuracy. We will tell how to make a double loopedstring later on.
