Making a wooden crossbow with only hand tools
Chris from YouTube channel Chop With Chris demonstrates how to build a wooden crossbow using only hand tools. Check it out above.
 
Chris uses walnut for the stock, hickory for the bow, and Brazilian hardwood for the trigger. 
 
The Chop With Chris YouTube channel covers a wide variety of DIY content - from tables, chairs, foot-powered machines, bows, arrows, crossbows, and more. 
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Robert Dalheim is an editor at the Woodworking Network. Along with publishing online news articles, he writes feature stories for the FDMC print publication. He can be reached at [email protected].