Main Projects: Ideas And Alternatives

My piece is inspired by the current state of our world, therefore I was not willing to budge on the concept. Therefore, I have created two ideas but have only sketched up the one as it would be similar. My idea is either a 6 to 7 foot guillotine, or a miniature variant around 2 to 3 feet that could be more of a fruit slicer over head chopper.

The main concept is a functional guillotine, however the issue I ran into was primarily size. The French put 12 foot guillotine on platforms, forcing people to kneel before losing a head. Unfortunately, while I have the yard for it I don’t think the people of Fort Collins would enjoy a guillotine on full display. Therefore, upon some further digging I’ve found that unfortunately the Nazis made exactly what I imagined. A shorter guillotine with a heavier blade for a similar effect as a full sized French guillotine. They also had a bench in which you’d lay over kneel.

This piece, while real and fully functional, would be used during Halloween. I will have to figure out a system for blade removal, probably creating a slit at the top that would also allow top down matinees access to the blades train.

I do not foresee this being very hard or expensive, most of the wood for the bench I’ve already sourced from someone free off Craigslist (it’s a wonderland). I am currently figuring out parts and budget.

I want to make it in the Mcbling aesthetic as that’s not normal and I feel like it would compliment the macabre nature of the piece. I plan to decorate it in a style I can only describe as a 2000s flip phone case. I plan to have hardware and parts by Spring Break and spending the week off both work and school to build it.