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Don't know where you're buying materials, but it would be 4 times that, at least, for the raw materials. Still worth it.
True to form I would've pegged it a fair amount higher then 200 bucks as well, somewhere in the grand range.
Gotta figure a gun and bullets is going to be cheaper until you start getting into triple digits, though the guillotine has a certain aesthetic.
Guilottine can kill all the billionares and rulling class for just a 1 time investment. A gun you have to keep buying ammo. At some point the guillotine wins. And worst case you could go to the scrapyard to get the steel for the blade and into the forest to get some wood to make the structure. Might not be as nice and all but should still chop off heads.
I could buy a lot of ammo for the cost of one guillotine...
The presumption there is that we somehow got all the folks needing to be got in one spot, which you have to admit is a lot of presumption.
Yeah but what is the other option? Go around an kill them each separately? Still more expensive.
I say round them all up and put them in those livestock trailers and transport them to one spot. Then organise a big event and live stream the whole thing.
Having built a few medieval contraptions over the years, it's going to be at least $100 for the wood alone (and that's if you use 2x4s), and the blade will probably be around $50 for just the steel.
Guillotines can be a little finicky if you're not careful during the building. It's a decent bit of weight slamming down, it needs to be on-track and aligned with itself or you might end up lodging the blade into the frame.
After my short research period, I found out that only the blade would cost around 40 just for the steel alone.