Welcome to our guillotines blog.

Welcome to our guillotines blog - in which we will feature a series of articles from Machine Tools Online which will give owners of a new guillotines (also known as a shears or shearing machines) insight into the types, setup, maintenance, accessories, intermediate and advanced use of these versatile sheet metal fabrication machine tools.

We hope all levels of user will enjoy them and provide us constructive feedback so we can build a library of useful articles and materials for our readers.

In this article we are going to focus on guillotines designed for cutting sheet metal. We will discuss how the machines deliver their cutting action, the two main types of sheet metal shearing machines and their characteristics and finally the advantages of using either.