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(64 votes) Published: Jun 09, 2005 11:37 p.m. In 10 Favorites Lists Viewed 2287 times
This is a guide on how to make your own crossbow. Dont expect to make this in 5 minutes, this will take about 1 hour in total, but you will have endless hours of fun with your homemade crossbow
Materials
-Wood Piece (size depends on how big you want your crossbow to be)
-Metal bands (at least 30"(3" in hight(see picture)))
-Metal Wire (I used brake wire, works very well)
-Metal Rods (for trigger system*optional*(hight of your piece of wood + 3"))
-Drill
-Saw
-File
Directions
1.Take your piece of wood and saw a 3" cut in the front 3" away from the tip.
2.Take your metal bands and cut one 18" in lengh. Now drill 1 hole on each end of the band(see picture).
3.Place the metal band in the saw grove you just cut.
4.Attache the metal wire to the two holes in the metal band.
5.OPTIONAL but recommended: Drill a diagonal hole through your piece of wood 7" behind the metal band.
Take your metal rod and ben the tip about 45 degres.
Place into the hole.
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Ammunitions
1.Practise ammunition: Shishkabob sticks.
2. The Real Thing: Take a wooden dowel about 1/2 a inch wide.
Take a piece of sturdy wire and cut with wire cutters.
Sharpen one tip first by rubbing for a while on ground.
Place pointed tip onto wooden dowel end.
Hammer wire into dowel.
rub other end on groun to sharpen.
Cut a groove in the back end of the dowel.
Enjoy you new bolt!
(see picture for trouble shooting)
ADD ONS
- Tube on the 3"’s at the front to guide the bolt
- Groove to help stabilize the bolt
- Sand paper, sand down the edges and from a handle
Jun 10, 2005 7:25 am - To make any form of crossbow or regular bow, you need a specific type of wood. The wood must be really flexible, I cant remember which type of wood, but you cant use any old wood as it would snap, crack and brake.
Jun 10, 2005 3:19 pm - nice detail. this egg is quite cool. like cassandraslover said yew is the wood you want but is hard to cut. hasel works quite well 4 long bows
Jun 10, 2005 3:28 pm - hmm Great egg. It’s very detailed. We need more people like you. This is an egg that I would like to come back to Rotteneggs and find.
Jun 10, 2005 4:51 pm - Bonesplitter i dont know if your read the first part
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This is a guide on how to make your own crossbow. Dont expect to make this in 5 minutes, this will take about 1 hour in total, but you will have endless hours of fun with your homemade crossbow
nest time think before you speak and btw i didnt know about the wood cause i just got some type of metal band from metal shop so ive never tried the yew wood instead:)
Jun 10, 2005 4:52 pm - sweet, would medal rulers work good for the bow, and i just put this really good trigger system of a crossbow on my site, it was the midevil style.
Jun 10, 2005 6:50 pm - dude count chocola thats a realy nice trigger system but it took me a while to disyphere the picture... ima try that right now and btw i dought the metal ruler would work unless its realy good qulity:)
Sep 09, 2005 10:46 am - Nice work! This is somewhat how I planed to make mine. The only difference is that I thought about using a leaf spring insted of a metal band (Theres always some dumped trucks around were I live)
Theres also a number of trigger options. I like the simple old thumb design (I might put an egg up about that)
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