Ironically this comment is entirely against the concept of the guillotines which were invented to ensure equality in executions. Whether noble or common we all got the quickest death, beheading. No more of the terrible, cheaply made hanging stands which wouldn’t break the neck thus slowly strangling the punished.
Much less wood needed for a guillotine as you don’t need a platform for the drop. Less metal working, as nails are harder to make than a single large metal blade. Less workers as it can be built by one guy.
Nails are stupidly easy to make compared to a large sheet of metal. I wouldn’t call most guillotine head separators blades. The sharpness doesn’t matter, as long as the thing weighs enough, it will slice through. The diagonal matters more than the sharpness.
I can make you a nail in 4 hits of a hammer, and I’m not a good smith. I know masters that can do it in 3 hits.
Ah shoot, thanks for the correction. I was told by a history major a while back that casting the blade would be cheaper and easier than the nails needed for a hanging platform so forgive my lack of knowledge. Your explination makes sense apologies for the likely misinfo
Last thing, as for sharpness, they were supposed to be sharpened and maintained sharp by the excecutioner. I assume that this wasn’t always the case but it was the standard. Executioners even usually owned multiple guillotines so that they could cycle through them when they wore down, repairing and maintaining the ones not in use
Ironically this comment is entirely against the concept of the guillotines which were invented to ensure equality in executions. Whether noble or common we all got the quickest death, beheading. No more of the terrible, cheaply made hanging stands which wouldn’t break the neck thus slowly strangling the punished.
Much less wood needed for a guillotine as you don’t need a platform for the drop. Less metal working, as nails are harder to make than a single large metal blade. Less workers as it can be built by one guy.
Equality In death.
Nails are stupidly easy to make compared to a large sheet of metal. I wouldn’t call most guillotine head separators blades. The sharpness doesn’t matter, as long as the thing weighs enough, it will slice through. The diagonal matters more than the sharpness.
I can make you a nail in 4 hits of a hammer, and I’m not a good smith. I know masters that can do it in 3 hits.
Ah shoot, thanks for the correction. I was told by a history major a while back that casting the blade would be cheaper and easier than the nails needed for a hanging platform so forgive my lack of knowledge. Your explination makes sense apologies for the likely misinfo
Last thing, as for sharpness, they were supposed to be sharpened and maintained sharp by the excecutioner. I assume that this wasn’t always the case but it was the standard. Executioners even usually owned multiple guillotines so that they could cycle through them when they wore down, repairing and maintaining the ones not in use