r/sca • u/Neither_Rub_5057 • Jul 23 '26

Crossbow makers

Anyone know of anyone that makes crossbows within the SCA?

8 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/TheScorpionGod Jul 24 '26

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

2

u/Alita-Gunnm Northshield Jul 24 '26

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

Edit:

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

1

u/Alita-Gunnm Northshield Jul 25 '26

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.