11" tall rosewood 1860 style "action playset" with all of the frills.

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I recently was commissioned by one of those dream clients that come by very rarely. The kind who start off with, "I want the prettiest machine you can build and don't worry about costs." He wanted rosewood. I could not find a distributor of fresh rosewood as it is endangered in most countries.

I found an antique speaker cabinet made from solid Brazilian from the 1950s when the big trees were falling like grass. What luck!

He wanted every customization I could mention and the price kept rising. Here is the result, for which I am proud to claim as my best guillotine model to date.

8" solid maple 1792 miniature guillotine with hinged table assembly, distressed theme with rusty steel blade.

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A client recently inquired to furnish his haunted dollhouse with this guillotine. It is 8" in height and is distressed measurably. He requested decades of neglect after much use. I needed to learn to rust steel under controlled circumstances. It worked.

The wood is very worn in all the right places, the table is fully hinged, and a copy can be attained through dreadwilliam.com.

24" tall solid maple 1792 miniature guillotine with hinged table assembly.

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Want a machine that commands, no demands attention? Try a 24" model like this. It makes mighty noise and hits with such force that structural changes needed to be made to rechannel the majority of the energy. The blade can cause harm even in the unsharpened state.

No plans yet to offer this model for sale as the price would be in the $400-$500USD range. My shipper will hate it as well.. Sure is cool to play with though.