What is the blade thickness of a typical guillotine?

why not try to rig up a spring assisted system. so we can do a assisted actuation?
anyways good luck on it
 
I know this is a pretty old post, but i have to post something because this thread is so interesting :yawn:
Seriously though, this would a great subject for knife makers to experiment the best push cut set up. At a constant force, what degrees of the edge, materials, weight, blade thickness, blade geometry(straight or curve like a katana) will work the best. Will the carbide volumes in different steels have different results? Will cpm-10V, cpm-S110V work better than carbon steels or low carbide steels like AEB-L in this situation?

The force can change by targeting the different force that people use to cut vegetables, chopping, bush crafting. This will be very cool to know.

BTW, does anyone know why the guillotine is oblique?
 
The slant creates a slicing effect by increasing the length of the edge engaged in a given width of a cut while also increasing the time over which that edge is engaged in that cut. It also aids in opening the cut by reducing the initial contact surface so the force is concentrated on a smaller area.
 
A 1:16 miniature is certainly doable in a visual sense, but you can't escape the square-cube law as it pertains to the mass of the blade and how that translates to available energy when dropped to perform an execution, er, cut.
 
LOL. What fun. I started reading the thread comments to my wife, laughing as I went. I stopped about half way when my wife replied, "That's just sick!"
 
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