Oh end him rightly.
Hi it's Tod at Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler here and today I'm back with Skallagrim's
medieval crossbow. I made it for him a few years ago, 960 pounds in draw weight; it's a monster.
I've also got some melons here. We go what's going on? Well skallagrim is known for quite a
few different things but one of the things he is known for is the meme "to end him rightly". Now
basically it was a Talhoffer a manuscript I think, where somebody unscrews a pommel, throws at his
opponent to distract him or whatever and there's the caption on it "end him rightly" and you know
this has just been associated with Skallagrim, so I thought. Before I finish babysitting his bow,
we're not going to do needle bodkins, we've done them. We're not going to do short bodkins,
we've done them. We're going to do the end him rightly bodkin.
Shall we find out what it does? Back on the range now with our crossbow, let's see what our bolt
does. So just to recap, I've got no idea how this thing's going to fly, so I've left the range quite
short. We're going to start with our Knight Vision camera protective helmet, we'll see what it looks
like to get "ended rightly". Accuracy is going to be a little weird because I've got to hold
the bolt down with my thumb because it's so front heavy; let's see how we go. This is going to kick.
Oh!!!!
Whoever said I was going to eat my words on that GoPro, we're just about to find out.
It's rolling!! Okay this has lived, but you've got to see what's happened at the other end.
That was pretty much a direct hit on the visor, I can't really tell, possibly just on the side here,
I can't really tell, but what I do know is it knocked the whole GoPro out of the mount
that was in there, that went flying, it snapped my spear shaft off. So that is the end of that,
that's what? 25 mm /inch ash, that's gone, and it has destroyed my bolt, so that's gone as well. So
I'm gonna make another bolt rather quickly. Right going for another shot against a melon this time,
so got ourselves a new bolt, let's see how we go.
That was such a bad shot, clearly not built for accuracy, so we're going to scrap all of that
and I'm going to go really close up to the melon, see what it does, get the cameras out back for a
really cheaty close-up shot now, but hopefully this will give us what we want. Three two one
Oh yeah that was ended rightly
Good this way. Should we do that again?
Oh end him rightly! Well I think that's all we need to say on the matter really.
Uh Talhoffer may have had a point. Anyway thanks, I'll catch up with you another time. Lovely stuff.
Hi I'm back. I was thinking about that film, because clearly it was ridiculous, I hope you
enjoyed it, but clearly it was ridiculous, you know the ending rightly bolt didn't exist, it
has no purpose, but it was incredibly powerful. It snapped that ash spearshaft in half, you know it
snapped the head off it, that is really something. So it got me thinking, those bows did shoot bolts
of different weights all the way from sort of 65 grams, all the way through to about 130 grams.
What difference does that make to impact energy? What difference does that make to distance that
the thing shoots? So we're going to come back for another couple of films and we're
going to look at those two aspects, anyway a few weeks away yet but watch this space.
Thank you