The playwork book . Y Fig. 88. 106 THEPLAYWORK BOOK A CROSSBOW Materials Required :— A bow-stick of pliable wood, strong string, a smoothlath of thin wood^ a fret saw, an awl, a penknife, along nail. This bow is made somewhat more elabo-rately than in Figure 86, and shoots offpebbles or bullets. The bow itself must betapered evenly towards either end, and in. ^IGS. 3? AND 90. the middle it must be bevelled flat for abouttwo and a half inches at one side, and aslight groove run right round the stick ateither end of the bevelled portion. Nexttake a thin lath or flat thin piece of wood, aquarter
The playwork book . Y Fig. 88. 106 THEPLAYWORK BOOK A CROSSBOW Materials Required :— A bow-stick of pliable wood, strong string, a smoothlath of thin wood^ a fret saw, an awl, a penknife, along nail. This bow is made somewhat more elabo-rately than in Figure 86, and shoots offpebbles or bullets. The bow itself must betapered evenly towards either end, and in. ^IGS. 3? AND 90. the middle it must be bevelled flat for abouttwo and a half inches at one side, and aslight groove run right round the stick ateither end of the bevelled portion. Nexttake a thin lath or flat thin piece of wood, aquarter of an inch thick and rather lessthan the length of the bow. Taper it from A CROSSBOW 107 two and a half inches wide at one end toone and a half at the other, and lay thehroad end across the flattened portion ofthe bow with about one inch on the crosspiece the width of thebow-stick and cut into each side of thecrosspiece a deep sharp nick, leavingabout one inch between each opposite setof nicks. Now draw your bow to the fullextent of its curve without running therisk of breaking it, and mark on the cross-piece where the bowstring crosses it whenthe bow is drawn, and here cut a narrowslot right through the cross-piece. I/itothis insert a trigger as in Figure 90. Thetrigger must be of wood and should curveat one or both ends, and should b
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