| GUIDO VARESI - The owner/curator of the Henker museum in Sissach - Thanks for buying my first model and thereby helping me launch Bois de Justice. Thank you for the interesting technical information exchange and for providing the Tussaud and Valence execution pictures in the History section as well as the picture of Franz Reichhart with the fallbeil in Gallery III. |
| ROBERT OPIE - Author of the excellent book: "Guillotine: The timbers of justice" and skillful guillotine maker himself - Thanks for all the technical help and insight into the design of the guillotine and the encouragement to build better and better models. Also many thanks for the great Weidmann execution picture on the History page, the guillotine picture from New Caledonia and the rear view of the 1907 guillotine. |
| YVES ROSSIGNOL - Guillotine fanatic and master draftsman - Thank you for spending nearly a year working with me on the drawings for the 1889 guillotine. Your skills in mechanical design are truly amazing. |
| STEVE LAPLACE - Guillotine and History enthusiast - Thanks for your continuous effort in proofreading and editing the website and especially for helping me locate the guillotine in Saint-Pierre. |
| DAVID FITZGERALD - Guillotine fanatic and collector - Thanks for the enthusiasm, the technical insight and the web design primer course. Also thanks for the picture of the night crowd at the Weidmann execution. And please... don't cut your fingers off with that Reunion guillotine. |
| MR.P - Fallbeil historian and collector - Thank you for the pictures of the Hamburg and Munich Fallbeils and for all the great information and pictures on the German guillotines. |
| SYLVAIN LARUE - Webmaster of "L'Art de Bien Couper" and author of several books about crimes and punishment in France - Thanks for the great website and all the information there, invaluable inspiration and help in building this site. Thank you also for the information on Besse & Simorre, for the photos of Deibler's clients and of the Danvers and Baillet executions. |
| JOURDAN - Historian of the French Executioners - Thank you for sharing your research and amazing documents on the early Tobias Schmidt guillotines. |
| YVES EGGERMONT - Guillotine and History enthusiast - Thank you for sharing your excellent pictures of the Luxembourg guillotine with me. |
| SYLVAIN MICHOT - Guillotine historian and master detective. Sylvain can find just about any historical document on this subject! His main interest is documenting all the executions from 1800 to 1870. Thank you for finding many of the photos of Deibler's clients. |
| PIOTR - Guillotine and fallbeil historian - Thank you for the high resolution picture of the Montbrison (?) execution, for the outstanding series of Katowice fallbeil photographs and for your shots of the Nuremberg and Ludwigsburg fallbeils. |
| JOSE JIMENEZ - Guillotine fanatic and collector - Thank you for all the great pictures of the Swedish guillotine and for trying to get me the ones of the Hanoi guillotine... and of course for buying one of my models. |
| ROSIANE ARTUR DE LIZARRAGA - Director of the Musée de l'Arche - For the warm welcome in Saint-Pierre and for giving me access to the guillotine and the archives. |
| YVAN MARCOU - Award winning journalist and author of articles on the Bagne in Guyana. Thank you for your collaboration in trying to resolve the "mystery" of the Cayenne guillotine and of the photos of the Bagne "executions". Thank you also for letting me use your photos on the Website. |
JEAN-JACQUES LE RUYET - aka "Le Photographe" - Guillotine and History enthusiast - Thanks for the excellent (and unknown) photo of the Weidmann execution and for all the other information on criminal affairs in France. |
| MUSEE de la POLICE - Thank you to the archives team that helped me find all the new information during my last visit to the museum. |
| SEBASTIEN TESSIER - Guillotine fanatic and collector - Thanks for the picture of Fournier on the History Page. |
| CARTER DREVES - Historian of the Fallbeil and German Scharfrichters - Thank you for the analysis of the Regensburg photo and the information about the Reichharts. Thank you also for sharing your vast knowledge of the fallbeil, scharfrichters, execution protocol and German justice system. |
| JØRN FABRICIUS - Webmaster of the Guillotine Headquarters - Thanks for evaluating my website and giving me good practical feedback. Thanks also for the great 3-D models that inspired me to get started. |
| BERNARD WEISWEILLER - Guillotine historian and modeler - Thank you for the lessons in metal hardening and tempering and for the great 1792 blades. Thank you also for sharing your notes on the real guillotine and your experience working with Delarue.
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| JOHN FERULLO & STEVE PROCTOR - Thank you to my St Petersburg "team" for all the amazing work grinding and shaping the pulleys for the Berger guillotine. I would definitely trust these guys to work on my teeth if I lived in Florida! |
| RON BLACK - Thank you for letting me use your excellent photos of the Rastatt fallbeil. |
| RAPHAEL ORTOLA - Guillotine fanatic and collector - Thanks for the film clip of the "Veteau and Martin" execution. INCREDIBLE footage! |
| CHRISTOPHE - Collector of vintage photographs relating to the Gendarmerie - For the use of your picture of the (possible) execution of Riboulet (still not confirmed) Picture restoration by Gordon Anderson. |
| KENT LACIN - Photographer - For the excellent picture of my model and for making my guillotines famous in the Sacramento area. |
| ROMAIN LAZZAROTTO - Thanks for letting me use your pictures of the Vietnam guillotines. |
| RYAN OLSON - Thanks for helping me edit the 1868 guillotine photograph. |
