Author Topic: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod  (Read 7640 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« on: October 27, 2013, 05:06:20 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApF6JEN6z8

Not sure if this is in the right place, but it is a self yew prod.  ;) Admins/Mods please feel free to move if necessary.

Sorry the vid is a bit long... I made it for the guy that helped me build the stock.
« Last Edit: October 27, 2013, 05:32:36 pm by adb »

Offline toomanyknots

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,132
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2013, 05:57:05 pm »
If that was me with that setup, I would so end up shooting a car, like my first shot.  ;D Very cool X bow, that is definitely on my list, but for the life of me I can't figure out the nut. Very slick though.
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline mullet

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 22,890
  • Eddie Parker
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2013, 06:25:50 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApF6JEN6z8

Not sure if this is in the right place, but it is a self yew prod.  ;) Admins/Mods please feel free to move if necessary.

Sorry the vid is a bit long... I made it for the guy that helped me build the stock.

Heck, I don't know ;D let an Admin move it if it's in the wrong place.
Lakeland, Florida
 If you have to pull the trigger, is it really archery?

Offline Ifrit617

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,596
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2013, 08:03:22 pm »
Wow that is a beauty. Looks ridiculously fun to shoot.

Jon

Offline Mike Joe

  • Member
  • Posts: 92
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2013, 10:44:10 pm »
 That is 8)
"Son, we don't really care how it looks, We want it to work." - John McPherson

Offline wood_bandit99

  • Member
  • Posts: 234
  • Shoot straight my friends!!
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2013, 10:51:49 pm »
I have a friend that wants one so I'm gonna do hickory backed osage. Should be fun build and a nice shooter! That is cool. Now make a real bow ;) lol
Yew and osage, BEST. WOODS. EVER! Shoot straight my friends!!!

Offline Arrowind

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,428
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2013, 11:27:31 pm »
That's AWESOME.   Really really cool!
Talking trees. What do trees have to talk about, hmm... except the consistency of squirrel droppings?

Offline Del the cat

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,300
    • Derek Hutchison Native Wood Self Bows
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2013, 08:54:38 am »
Nice vid, good commentary.
Del
Health warning, these posts may contain traces of nut.

Offline Jodocus

  • Member
  • Posts: 897
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2013, 09:00:48 am »
Sweet crossbow!
Don't shoot!

Offline NeolithicMan

  • Member
  • Posts: 562
  • No beliefs, just ideas
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2013, 09:42:29 am »
Very sweet! I wanted to make one but everyone was saying you needed a horn belly, well backed prod and I have no horn. Its happening now though, making one for sure!
John, 40-65# @ 28" Central New York state. Never enough bows, never enough arrows!

JacksonCash

  • Guest
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2013, 10:18:40 am »
Very cool, I like it.

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2013, 11:14:03 am »
Nice vid, good commentary.
Del

Did you like the part when my wife wants to know "are we done yet?"  ;D ;D I think she was getting cold!

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2013, 11:15:32 am »
Very sweet! I wanted to make one but everyone was saying you needed a horn belly, well backed prod and I have no horn. Its happening now though, making one for sure!

I have another rawhide backed yew self prod roughed out, and I'd like to try and get 80-100#s out of it. I think it's possible.

Offline IdahoMatt

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,093
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2013, 11:25:46 am »
Great job man.  Looks like a hoot to shoot :).  Nice work on the fit and finish. 

Offline ErictheViking

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,504
Re: Medieval crossbow replica - self yew prod
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2013, 12:45:17 pm »
one of those " I need to make one myself" kind of projects. looks like a fun time shooting it.
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"  C.S. Lewis