Check out my Daughters school project!

[southernasylum]

I'm so proud of my 14 year old daughter. She attends a private school. Her school requires all 8th grade students to do a 25 hour project and log their hours. I helped her with a couple of difficult cuts on the angle grinder and router but she did most everything on this. She even demonstrated it outside of her school. Her teacher was so excited to give it a try as soon as the teacher shot it she said "Well you'll be getting an A!". Other teachers heard about it and came out to give it a go.

This was her project:

 

 

 

 

 

-Stock is 2x4 pine

-Trigger and mechanism is a flat piece of steel cut and bent after she heated it with a blowtorch.

-Bow is a piece of 1" PVC heated and flattened then reheated and bent to shape. (People on the interwebs are getting 150lb draw on     1 1/2" PVC so we went with 1"

-String is 550 paracord

-bolt is an oak dowel rod with a penny ground into an arrow shape and packing tape fletching. ( I actually made this arrow, she made two like it with foam on the tips in case they wouldn't allow her to shoot the sharp one)

 

Yup, my daughter rocks!

 

-southernasylum

 

[pops572]

That is freaking awesome. She should be getting an A +.

[hipower]

Excellent work.

[KKing]

Wow, very cool. Good on the school as well. Definitely something to be proud of man!

[bersaguy]

Daughter must be a chip off the old block huh.............. :up: :up: :rock:

[Caster]

Good thing she doesn't attend public school. She'd been arrested and kicked outta school.

That's very nice work. Tell her all she needs is an 'I love Daryl Dixon" sticker and she's ready rock.

[bigun]

Way to go little missy'

[Dustbuster]

Awesome!!!!


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[jtmaze]

That is definitely awesome. And a good thing she doesn't go to public school. Next year she needs to make a long bow. JTM We the People of the United States, in order to form a more Perfect Union......

[TrickyNicky]

Totally BA. :up:

[Trekbike]

Very impressive for sure!    Glad to see that at least some school administrators (even if they are a private school) still have some common sense to allow her to do the project.  

 

What kind of accuracy and distance has she been able to achieve? 

[173rdABN]

Awesome!!!! That's absolutely BA she got to do that for a school project let alone did so well with making it!

[southernasylum]

Very impressive for sure! Glad to see that at least some school administrators (even if they are a private school) still have some common sense to allow her to do the project.

What kind of accuracy and distance has she been able to achieve?

We intentionally reduce the power on this so as not to hurt anyone. She shoots at a 18x24" cardboard box at around 15yards. She hits it most times. The pointy one goes clean thru the box the padded ones bounce off. If we wanted to we could have easily made it lethal at intermediate distances.


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[Guest Lowbuster]

This is so cool. Great going young lady

[maroonandwhite]

That's awesome!

[BJB]

Very cool Great Job

[dralarms]

Very cool.

[RED333]

VERY NICE, My hats off to the young Lady, and Dad as well.

Ya need to find a few turkey feathers to make the fletching.

Not to hard and very fun.

[kieefer]

Awesome! She's lucky to have parents like you and to be able to go to a private school. She'd never have this opportunity in public schools without serious consequences.

[ArmyBrat61]

Very impressive work...congrats to her! :up:

[BigK]

heck yeah!! looks medieval and bada$$

[Grand Torino]

That is cool as hell. Somebody did a good job raising that young lady. :up:

[NoBanStan]

I don't know if i'm more impressed by the crossbow or that the school let her do that......

[Danger Rane]

That's Awesome!  It's really cool to see that there are still youngsters out there willing to get their hands dirty, and good job Dad on helping her and giving her the tools to be creative.

[Fourtyfive]

Very nice , how accurate to what distance ?