How to make a stronger Crossbow

This instructable explains the 'basics' of making yourself a home-made crossbow. Feel free to expirement and comment!

Step 1: Materials

For this crossbow, you need some rubber bands, a clothespin, a ton of pospicle sitcks, some skewers or straight, small peices of wood and a peice of wood about 45 cm X 10 cm X 2 cm. It doesnt really matter exactly. As tools you need a saw and some wood glue.

Comments

[maddman]

this would be considered a toy, correct? i will demonstrate to you the great power of madd. i will create a instructable for something much more how should i say ? Effective. none the less , this is generally amusing to a child , good day sir.

[zazarul]

hye....if you use a guitar string.....its srong than any wire or rubber

[-Cody-]

Oh, and btw, email me for my design, i also know how to make bows, arrows, catapolts, but they r my designs and not yet perfected. [e-mail]

[afridave]

try using one or two or maybe even 3 camping bed legs for a bow. i tried with one as i only have one, and it was quite powerful but not powerful enough but the bed leg does not loose its shape or springliness. i could not get the bed leg to stop twisting in the stock. but two or 3 strapped together may give a flatter surface to fasten to the stock, but it may be very difficult to load.

[-Cody-]

Sorry, but i think i will stick to my design, it will easily kill things, but hard to relode.

[twodogs]

how far I mean does it shoot

[twodogs]

how does it shoot

[anarki121]

u dont hunt birds with a cross bow <_>

[sppppy]

you should use bamboo cane instead of loli sticks for the bow

[Aklash, The hunchback]

kudos on the bolt. simple idea, ive been using dowels and garden stakes as arrows for a long time but i never came up w/ using paper fletching before. good idea

[david s 91]

lame

[Jaycub]

The bow par could be a lot better.

[david s 91]

to steady the aim try to make a stock from something in my experience a 2 by 4 cut into the general shape of a stock then smoothed out works pretty well.

[kaos863]

can it kill a rabbit?

[matthewthemad]

Very nice idea, i tried making one with a coat hanger as a bow and rubber bands for a string. What kind of string did you use for yours?

[thoraxe]

Coat Hanger and rubber bands wont work. Elastic bands belong to slingshots, not bows. Also, the Coat hanger metal tends to stay bent.

[TheMadScientist]

want realism? go back to the early times and use sinew!

[Jobar007]

What would be better is linen cord. Much stronger, lighter and it won't stretch over time.

[TheMadScientist]

yeah, but what fun is it if you don't get to yank the feet off of the dead corpses of birds!?!

[hg341]

no we but need it that real

[jakesllama]

dang how do you put your pics up?

[jakesllama]

this is him

[jakesllama]

smart i didn't think of a row of lolly pop sticks i used a coil of elastic bands and carved the cross bow by hand for stronger uses

[receiver545]

hey you should use chop sticks and duct tape fins as a arrow the chop sticks are alrready sharp and want break or dull and duct tape fins want fall off of tear up!!

[Darkknight512]

Looks disturbingly like mine, but mine is neater, http://www.instructables.com/id/EW3CWSIT9VEYF7ISOE/

[paulm]

check out mine, and also, use a nylon string