Don't know where you're buying materials, but it would be 4 times that, at least, for the raw materials. Still worth it.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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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.
A gun you have to keep buying ammo. At some point the guillotine wins.
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.
Just 50 for a guillotine? The steel alone for the blade is more expensive than that. I already bought the wood though.
Just 50 for a guillotine?
Seriously -- OP, you gotta tell me where you're getting them for $50 each. I'll take 3 of them, please.
How much for a gold-covered guillotine, tho?
I'm sure a can of gold spray paint would be like $10
Next generation will ask - what did you do in your guillo-teens?
$50 when using a razor blade and popsicle sticks
You can recycle the popsicle sticks from trashcans.
Right? You need tools to make something quality!
Priceless*
I'll make you one for free.
I'll spray paint it gold.
Yes, this is a community effort, let’s go.
I think the ship is the thunderchild 2 and it's amazing.
I love it when "anti-capitalist" left glazes capitalist revolutions and their iconography (guillotines), as if toppling of aristocracy and replacing them by rule of capital hasn't been the status quo for ~150 years at this point
The French revolution was not to install capitalism, it was for increased freedoms, republicanism, and liberal democracy. It was without a doubt a step in the right direction away from autocratic rule, that doesn't mean it's the end of the line journey for liberation hence why calls for continuing the class war are made. The guillotine is merely a symbol for that, besides everyone knows these days we advocate for the wood chipper.
No, it was a literal bourgeois revolution where, in an alliance with underclasses in a popular movement, the bourgeois class revolted against the upper classes of the time in an attempt to destroy feudal social relations and allow capitalism to grow more freely (which these relations harmed).
The liberal freedoms were also, in practice, freedoms for the propertied and the wealthy. This meant no more legal privileges or barriers between people if they wanted to start a business or something (as long as you have enough wealth to actually do it), weakening of the state power meaning that the powers that be can't just suddenly change taxes, grant monopoly or confiscate property without due process, etc...
As I said, it was historically progressive but not anymore, and calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
calling for guillotines is essentially calling for a replacement of capitalist rule by capitalist rule.
That is ridiculous.
Guillotines are a general calling for revolution against the ruling classes, it is not specifically calling the French revolution.
Im french, it's ok guys the guillotine is free for reproduction. No patents 👌
Is it that ridiculous considering the nature of that revolution, and the fact that when it does get used, 99 times out of 100 it's always some moralist-fueled class collaborationist liberal movement that targets specific "evil" bourgeois individuals (i.e. specific billionaires, elected officials, etc) and calls for their downfall/replacement in particular rather than the class society as a whole?
I mean you can certainly use it in any way you want and there's nothing stopping you, but for those who aren't operating just on vibes and who know the historical class-context and the modern use of guillotines, it does have the larp connotation and sometimes can feel like a self-report.
It is ridiculous to think in 2026 that people are clamouring to perfectly recreate the French Revolution of the 1700s down to fighting for the same social cause despite them already living in the product of that revolution, and that the symbolism of the guillotine is reflection of their intent to do so.
The guillotine is no less a class sentiment than eat the rich is.
And I have to ask is your 'proud Zionist' thing a bit or a genuine belief?