The Woodshop Shed

Kyra's Guillotine

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


My grand daughter approached me for some help building a model guillotine for her world history class, and I agreed to assist her. She found the plans she liked from the web (https://www.instructables.com/Mini-Guillotine/) and I found enough material in my scrap bin to make it (red oak, maple, ply, and 1/8 hardboard)To better understand the instructions and check the dimensions, I modeled the plans with Sketch Up. We ripped up some oak and half lapped the pieces of the frame and table components, dadoed the uprights for the blade to ride in and pulleys in the headworks. A couple of YiaYia's sewing machine bobbins found their way into the headworks for the pulley system.All the connecting pieces were glued and pinned with finishing brads. Being it's nearly Halloween, I suggested splattering some of the pieces with red paint, which got her to making some plans for little sisters Barbie doll. I think Kyra and YiaYia are out looking for a small basket - I didn't ask why.I know this was not much of a fine crafted build, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share my shop with my grand daughter and our adventures with all you' all.

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