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Published: 2006-11-22 18:09:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 4780; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 95
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I made this for my thesis show. It was a lot of fun to figure out how to make a fully functioning guillotine from scratch. It was about 5 feet tall, which would be a lot shorter in height than a real one.Related content
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Thanks... it was taken in the gallery at my show. It is more fun to play with it in person...
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I usually see small guillotines... actually, no, I don't usually see small guillotines. It'd be for yakuzas, no?
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Japanese organised gangsters. If one of them commits a serious fault, he is forced to chop off one of his fingers.
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Ouch! It would take off a finger in a jif!
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Indeed.
In a video game, I saw a miniature guillotine used to cut the heads off fishes... because it is meant to be French cuisine.
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Cool! I want a mini one! Maybe I should make one...
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Would make an interesting conversation piece - when inviting over the neighbors... and if they do not find the humor... well then it makes it easier to get new neighbors...
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LOL... Yes. Reminds me of Little Wednesday.
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Very interesting!
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Yes! It was not as hard as you might think... except the release mechanism was a challenge. Thank you for looking and commenting!
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that must have been terrific fun to build
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3tm, It was a lot of fun. I may build another someday. You just don't know how good it feels to pull the release mechanism. *snick* -- and the sound of the blade falling, it was an awesome piece to see it work.
I wish I could see a real one. I read about the Halifax gibbet, and the apparatus was over 60 feet tall, and was said to shoot the head into the audience.
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did you try to cut anything with it? anything?
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Yes. No flesh... but it would snap a piece of maple wood. To make it cut better it would need to be taller than 5 or so feet. Wouldn't that be awful, if it cut your head like 3/4 of the way off? ouch!
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Like nearly headless Nick. "Harry Potter Reference"
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Ha, I had forgotten that! I love HP...
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LOL Chibi! It was scary! I was scared of it even! Fully Functional!
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hahahaha yeah i would be probably horrified, but i still want one.
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When the blade came down, it hit so hard the whole guillotine jumped. The blade was a quarter inch thick, and sharpened. eek!
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No, actually I dismatled it after my thesis show. But it could be reassembled if a situation presented itself... *smirk*
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very cool, given it a test run on any pesky neighbours yet?
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