HFS(R) Heavy Duty Guillotine Paper Cutter Commercial Metal Base (A3-17'')

There are cheaper guillotines out there, but if you need to make accurate cuts on text blocks without slowly using a craft knife and a steel ruler then this is the one to buy. It works straight out of the box. There are some easy to follow YouTube videos made by HFS that show how to make adjustments, change the blade etc. I haven’t tried to cut through hundreds of sheets, but a text block about 1/2 inch thick is no problem at all. The blade eventually cuts into a square plastic bar that is sacrificial, and this will probably result in a loss of cleanliness of your cuts, but the bar can be rotated and turned end for end to give 8 surfaces for the blade to work on. Fresh sacrificial bars and blades are available. Be warned though, this is heavy and ideally once it’s in your workshop you’ll probably want to leave it in place! An excellent piece of kit.

Very happy with this guillotine, I'm an amateur bookbinder and this cut through a fairly hefty text block with almost no effort. Easy to assemble and use. Decent safety features.

Great Guillotine for the money, extremely sharp blade, I do a bit of bookbinding, this is just the job for triming down book block to finished size. Did have to make a small adjustment to the clamp, as it was not clamping evenly along the lenght of the cut, which meant it could make the paper, but after watching a YouTube video, I adjusted it, now it's spot on. Great guillotine for the money and is a lot better than expected, love it

The guillotine cuts through approx 3cm. It requires some effort but has now done about 30 books of this size without loss of sharpness. Two minor issues I've had to work around:1. Books tend to warp a little whilst being cut, so I tend to break them into 2 thinner sections to reduce the effect2. The last few pages don't cut cleanly, hence the scissors in the attached photo. I've tried putting scrap paper underneath the books, but that makes so much mess!Overall, very pleased.

Bought in July - it arrived broken (the gate would not tighten as the bottom part seems to be missing, so it was hard to measure but it wasn't that much of an issue). It doesn't cut through every sheet, but using some scrap paper underneath helped this issue a little but again, made it hard to measure correctly. Was willing to put up with its quirks, but after a few months light use, the safety lock decided to stop working and the page guard won't clamp down properly so it feels very dangerous to use. The 'heavy duty' description is inaccurate.

Take note of the weight. You don't want to keep moving it around. Using sacrificial card I've had some excellent results cutting paper. So far less than half inch thick. Little pricey but works well.

What a machine. This is the sturdiest guillotine I've ever used. Really sharp, sturdy and accurate. My wife uses it for her bookmaking and binding, and it does what it says. Wouldn't get anything else.

I love this machine so much that I named her Harriet. I print notebooks and I just love how much paper it can cut at a time and how accurate the measurements are. A true workhorse.