Project Of The Day : Thing From Hell

[shilala]

The kid has a social studies teacher that keeps his room full of guillotines. Really.
Yes, I know it's odd. I had the guy when I was in Middle School and he was odd then, so it's no shocker to me.
My Rebekah is a straight A student, always has been. Social Studies has always been her most hated subject. This year it's not. I've heard "Barry said this" and "Barry said that" a number of times. He's gotten through to her and she's enjoying his class and not struggling so much.

This guillotine project is extra credit of some sort. The rules as to how the extra work will affect her grade were very convoluted as relayed to me. I still don't get it.
What I did understand is that the guillotine had to work and couldn't be dangerous because kids are stupid.
So we set out to designing. We found an iteration that looked authentic and rustic and like something that would be widely used because of it's inexpensive styling. We managed to find a decent picture and exactly one dimension. "The blade drops 89 inches". From that we were able to scale the model 1 1/2" : 1'.
The only screw up is where the head goes in the stock. It's an inch or two too big (to scale) and I wasn't making it again.

This has been one of the most exasperating things I ever made. Mostly because I made mistakes constantly and didn't have the right tooling to do it correctly on the CNC. Most of it had to be made by hand and they itty bitty pieces. But it's done. Finally.

Here's the oddness in all it's glory, and it works perfectly.