Marble-Shooting Wooden Crossbow Punches Through Plywood

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/04/20 @ 1:00 pm
Category Fun & Games, Science, Woodworking

Just another little bit of sweetness from Matthias Wandel, whose fantastic “woodworking for engineers” site, woodgears.ca, we have, to date, linked to more than a dozen times. See below.

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BY Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.

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15 Responses to Marble-Shooting Wooden Crossbow Punches Through Plywood

Bryan on April 20th, 2011 at 8:39 pm said:

I want one. That way I’ll still have a potentially lethal self defense weapon when Obama manages to finish packing the SCOTUS with anti-Second Amendment judges and they decide by judicial fiat that the 2nd Amendment only applies to members of the Military and Law Enforcement.

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- Eddie Shuman on June 14th, 2011 at 12:46 am said:
  
  I want one too, that way when Obama herps all the derps I an still herpitidy derp with out him herping all the didiliederps…..Derp.
  
  fucking socialist.
  
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- Eddie Shuman on June 14th, 2011 at 12:46 am said:
  
  I want one too, that way when Obama herps all the derps I an still herpitidy derp with out him herping all the didiliederps…..Derp.
  
  fucking socialist.
  
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- Eddie Shuman on June 14th, 2011 at 12:46 am said:
  
  I want one too, that way when Obama herps all the derps I an still herpitidy derp with out him herping all the didiliederps…..Derp.
  
  fucking socialist.
  
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- Eddie Shuman on June 14th, 2011 at 12:46 am said:
  
  I want one too, that way when Obama herps all the derps I an still herpitidy derp with out him herping all the didiliederps…..Derp.
  
  fucking socialist.
  
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Jea-jean Breu on April 21st, 2011 at 7:09 am said:

hello welcome goodbye et bonne et fructueuse journée

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Christopher Todesco on April 21st, 2011 at 2:55 pm said:

Hmm… While I’d barely classify that 1/8″ luan crap as “plywood”, and mention that you could put your finger through it with very little effort, I still want one.

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- Sean Michael Ragan on April 26th, 2011 at 4:58 pm said:
  
  Indeed. I hesitated at the headline, and in the end copped out to sensationalism. =]
  
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S.Roberts on August 21st, 2011 at 2:41 pm said:

Brilliantly awesome idea! A must have device, where can I get the plans for making one?

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tibbe zwenkwiel on September 10th, 2011 at 12:49 am said:

I used to shoot marbles using my sling shot
basicaly the same effect
best was firing it at windows, would leave this perfectly round holes

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tibbe zwenkwiel on September 10th, 2011 at 12:49 am said:

I used to shoot marbles using my sling shot
basicaly the same effect
best was firing it at windows, would leave this perfectly round holes

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tibbe zwenkwiel on September 10th, 2011 at 12:49 am said:

I used to shoot marbles using my sling shot
basicaly the same effect
best was firing it at windows, would leave this perfectly round holes

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SpeedySigns on October 5th, 2011 at 5:39 pm said:

Looks like a nice little weekend project to me!

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Mac Whitaker on August 19th, 2012 at 4:33 pm said:

I, like Matthias, live in the country, and after recently joining MAKE, saw this, and thought of using it as a ranged way to shoo deer from our garden. Overkill? I hope it wouldn’t hurt the deer, so I won’t be using ball bearings. Any thoughts?

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Mac Whitaker on August 19th, 2012 at 7:12 pm said:

What kind of tool was used to make the track for the barrel?

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