July 27, 2025
Description
Kids toy recurve bow and arrow, with a soft TPU arrow head for safe play.
I recommend using PETG for especially the bow, the arrow might work just as well with PLA but have only tried with PETG. For the arrow-head I recommend TPU95A HF, I also tried the TPU for AMS but it's more likely to crack rather than flex if compressed too much.
When you string the bow be careful to apply similar force/bend to both ends to not have one end of the bow break. After stringed its robust, it's the stringing process that is critical. (I really like the recurve bow look so it took my a number of prototypes to get it no neither break or be too fragile)
If you wish to have something for target practice, I've also these knockdown targets:
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1661122-knockdown-target#profileId-1757217
License:
Standard Digital File License