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Guillotines for Jewellery Making
Discover our range of precision, heavy duty guillotines for jewellery making. These precision cutting tools are designed to help you accurately cut sheet metal, achieving clean, straight edges with every cut. Guillotines are a useful tool for the jewellery making workshop and are an ideal way of creating easy cuts in gold, silver and platinum, as well as other materials. With a guillotine you get great control and high-quality results that you can repeat over and over again. Find the right tool for your workshop today.
What is a Jewellery Guillotine?
A jewellery guillotine is a cutting tool designed to cleanly cut metal sheet, wire and chain and other materials used in jewellery making. You will often find a guillotine in a professional jewellers workshop, a useful tool when working on bespoke jewellery projects. The lever operated machines are fitted with hardened steel blades, with straight edges, that can be mounted on workbenches for sharp, clean and uniform cuts every time.
In a jewellers workshop, guillotines are primarily used for:
Cutting sheet metal in a range of materials including silver, gold, copper and aluminium
Trim edges on specific designs. guillotines are particularly useful when creating a number of the same pieces as you can achieve the same, unform cuts each time.
Cutting wire to length in a range of materials. Guillotines can help when creating unique designs, decorative pieces and chains.
Guillotine v Saw Frame
A guillotine is a reliable alternative to saw frames and is ideal for quick straight cuts in metal. Guillotines are generally favoured by professional jewellery makers for their speed and accuracy and can help create repeatable, clean cuts.
Saw frames are, in contrast to a guillotine, suited for more complex cutting. Used for more intricate and detailed cuts and despite frequent blade changes, a saw frame remains an essential tool in every jewellery makers workshop. For detailed work, where flexibility is required, saw frames are ideal.
If you need simple, efficient and quick cuts on sheet and wire, that can be repeated then a guillotine is a fantastic tool to invest in. Long lasting and reliable, our range of guillotines are designed to comfortably sit on your workbench and can easily cut through gold, silver, copper and more.
Guillotines can cut a range of metal thicknesses, with good quality machines leaving clean cuts every time. Our range of guillotines includes the Durston heavy duty guillotine that can cut up to 3.5mm thick metal, right down to our value range guillotines that can cut a variety of metals at a range of thicknesses.
Guillotines are straightforward machines that are easy to use, whatever your skill level. Shop the full range of jewellery guillotines online today or for more questions and advice on finding the right guillotine for your workshop, contact our expert team today on 0345 100 1122.
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