by Phil Abrahams Sun May 17, 2015 6:08 am
Hi everyone,Phil here,well i just do not know what to say except that i am ecstatic,lost for word's,you name it,when Oppenheimer came to my Facebook page and told me this i thought OMGG this is truly STAGGERING and thought to myself well what about that crossbow with four prod's that was the most powerful crossbow ever and thought there's absolutely no way on this earth that i could have made a crossbow this fast and powerful.I then replied to the new's by saying now are you absolutely dead certain about this kind of speed & power and then left it for a good few day's just to see if he had made a mistake at all and we then got in contact and talked about this.Now what do you think the word BOW refer's to i.e is it the function or is it the shape that define's what a BOW really is.For example a straight stick is refer'ed to as being BOW'ED when it is bent.So if you think about it a crossbow or any bow is called a bow because the prod or limb's are BOWE'D especially when drawn regardless whether or not they store all the ENERGY.The mechanical bow of the Mantis doe's transfer all the store'd energy that is stored in the spring and then to the bowstring as the store'd energy is transfered to the pivoting limb's as soon as that trigger is squeezed and work's EXACTLY the same as any conventional flexing limb bow for without these specially design'ed and shape'd bow limb's it quite simply would not work so when some say thing's like FAKE limb's that do NOTHING is not true at all A prime example of fake limb's is seen in the VACUM powered CROSSBOW by a Russian Gentleman and that is a very powerful weapon too as just look at his video's to see how easily he cock's it with his hand's and it is only the bowstring that travel's so no mass there at all and it penetrated a piece of 2mm thick steel so it is very efficient indeed and i congratulate him as to me that is brilliant and so simple but it work's.FLEXING LIMB'S do an excellent job if made as perfect as is possible and all crossbow's out there are perfect with ample speed & power to get any job done i.e HUNTING or TARGET shooting and 300 fp's with say a 400 grn arrow/bolt is very powerful indeed.Anyway just though that i would come on here and say hello as it's been a while since i posted here last and keep up all the great work with all the very fascinating and very interesting crossbow project's as there's nothing quite like a beautiful crossbow that you made all by yourself and remember that Phil did it all with just a bench PILLAR DRILL and two modified fretsaw's one for cutting and one for filing very awkward shape's and also a bench grinder and a hand grinder and linisher (bench belt sander) a DREMMEL hand held drilling/grinding/cutting tool and a bandsaw for wood and a small model maker's lathe & miller and good file's of all shape's and size's so nothing very special or indeed very expensive at all and a nice workshop to get well away from her indoor's,lol.My workshop has it all it's a NIGHTCLUB with all the best speaker's that i designed & built myself and turntable's/cd player's a mixer and powerful amp and there's also an indoor shooting range for airgun's/crossbow's and a STONE wood burner i also made too and on many a very cold winter's evening i am up there either working on crossbow's or shooting them or listening to quality soul/dance music with a nice bottle of red wine chilling,all the best,Phil.
Last edited by Phil Abrahams on Sun May 17, 2015 6:10 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : spelling mistake)