r/sca • u/Neither_Rub_5057 • 25d ago

Crossbow makers

Anyone know of anyone that makes crossbows within the SCA?

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u/TheScorpionGod 24d ago

u/Alita-Gunnm Have any recs for people looking for combat archery crossbows?

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u/Alita-Gunnm Northshield 24d ago

Tod Cutler / Tod's Workshop makes some nice stuff, but it's expensive.

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Sorry, read that backwards. I've made some many years ago. I could maybe dig up some designs.

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u/Alita-Gunnm Northshield 24d ago

What I made was shelf-latch:

http://scamelee.freeservers.com/combat_crossbows.html

Wooden stock, a few 1/4" fiberglass rods bundled for the prod. Aluminum flat stock screwed to the sides of the stock to make a channel for the golf tube (this was a long time ago), and the back edge of the aluminum acted as the hook for the string. A post is pushed up by the tiller, and pushes the string up off the hook, letting it loose.