Lookie what I made!

[Were-Sandwich]

MY dad recntly forbade me from using the computer. In a fit of boredom I got my Mecanno collection out. After sitting around a bit, I decided to improve on my previous wrist-mounted crossbow (yeah, I made it myself), and make a proper crossbow. Here are some pictures (Warning, big).
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...6/Crossbow.jpg
^The crossbow, next to a 30cm ruler.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...h_2006/Bow.jpg
^The Bow, made out of strips, with 4 laminations. Its bloody hard to pull back.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...06/Trigger.jpg
^The trigger mechanism.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...006/Target.jpg
^The polystyrene target I made. The thing can fire pencils so deep, they don't come out when you hold the target upside-down.

Stuff I'm going to add:

• Goats foot, for reloading
• Longer launch rail
• something to stop the pencils kicking up when they leave the rail
• The catches for the trigger will be moved to the exterior, to enable me to knock the pencils properly.
• Padding on the stock
• A sight

It fires pencils, which I modify by sawing the end square with a hacksaw, then filing a knocking groove in.

So, wadda ya think?

[bonestheskeleton]

That's rather awesome. Is there any chance you wrote down instructions on how to make that? If you did write them down, I'd love to see them.

[Were-Sandwich]

I don't tend to write down what I make, sorry. If I had that program that makes Mecanno instruction diagrams, I would, but I can't find it anywhere. I mostly make it up as I go along, so I don't tend to make plans. I could give you pointers though.