Homemade mini crossbow

Mini crossbow

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆

Time: About 2 hours

From scrap: ████████░░ 80%

Preamble

In this topic is described how to make a mini crossbow. It is not very powerful, because the string is made of rubber, making a handmade mini crossbow the great shooting toy for a child.

Materials

• Wooden slats
  
• The strip steel
  
• The wooden clothespin
  
• The handle of the ski stick
  
• Rubber or a fine spring and
  
• The trigger of a toy gun
  
• Parts of mechanical designer or sheet metal
  
• Steel wire

Tools

• Hacksaw
  
• Drill
  
• Fixing tools
  
• Files
  
• Pliers

How to make mini crossbow



• Step 1

  
  Body of handmade mini crossboy is made of three planks, fixed with nails.


• Step 2

  
  Bow is made of steel strips, they fastened to body with screws.
  

  Mini crossbow's bow will not bend, because bowstring is a rubber band.

  
  

  

  
  Forward view. You can see how bow is attached
  

  


• Step 3

  
  Trigger is very simple. It is made of wooden pin with one edge cut
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 4

  
  Handle is a handle of ski pole, glue it
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 5

  
  Second bow is made of old clock to make handmade mini crossbow more powerful
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 6

  
  The pusher. Cut it of wood and adapt it to pin to make a trigger system
  

  

  
  

  

  
  Вместе с прищепкой толкатель образует очень простой спусковой механизм
  

  


• Step 7

  
  Rubber band, will be a bowstring
  

  


• Step 8

  
  Trigger taken from toy gun and fastened with metal strips, also you can use a mechanical constructor set
  

  


• Step 9

  
  Extra bow, attached to body of mini crossbow
  

  

  
  And bottom view
  

  


• Step 10

  
  Attach trigger to the mini crossbow
  

  


• How it works

  
  Rubber bowstring fixed in pusher, which can move along the body. Pusher can be fixed by pin - it's a trigger system. Advantage of using pusher: you can use any types of ammo with your handmade mini crossbow. Balls, bolts...
  

  


• Step 11

  
  Also I made a sight and replaced rubber band with a spring to make mini crossbow more powerful
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 12

  
  Connection from trigger to pin, made of steel wire
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 13

  
  As ammo i'm using syringe needles with heavy heading
  

  

  
  Author: (KR@S)HЕНЫЙ

Video

By contrast, I suggest to watch the video about the world's most powerful crossbow and its fight with the armor. Will it break?

Results and tips

• The simple design
  
• Power is not enough to cause harm, but it allows the use of very simple trigger.
  
• In other words, this mini crossbow is a great shooting toy for kids!
  
• Easy to manufacture and operation
  
• Uses any ammo (bolts, balls ..)

Tags: crossbow