Rubber Band Pencil Crossbow

Wrap a rubber band around the pencils beneath the loading end of the tube.

Rubber band pencil crossbow.

Line them up so that the erasers are together. The stock is the base the part of the crossbow upon which everything rests. Jun 5 2019 explore brianne martinez s board pencil crossbow on pinterest. Tie two pencils together at both ends with rubber bands.

Your 2 crossbow is now complete. Gripping the wood arrow and the rubber bands pull back and aim your. Im going to post it on instructables soon when i have the time. Rubber band 7.

You will need sticky tape cotton buds for ammo 4 pencils plastic drinking straw rubber bands some help from an adult. Use unsharpened unused pencils that are the exactly the same length. Slide one wooden skewer used for cooking or a 3 16 dowel into the pen housing. Stretch your rubber band between the gap of your horizontal pair of rubber bands.

Tape 2 pencils together. Tie a rubber band about an inch from the erasers and tie a second rubber band about an inch from the tips. To make it take two pencils. Yesterday i made a really good crossbow it doesnt get very good distance but thats just because i messed up the rubber band and it is kinda loose but it has a trigger mechanism allowing for easy firing and i put in a crosshair xd.

The loading end is the one where the tube doesn t line up with the end of the crossbow this adds elevation which will come in handy later. And tie the other two together as well but only at one end. Wooden skew ammo 1 the 2 crossbow is a larger variant of the other bows found in this book. From the eraser 1 centimeter from the unsharpened end of the pencil and in the middle.

Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back.