Details
The Schroeder Manual Guillotine HS is a robust, high-precision manual shear designed for professional sheet metal workshops and roofing experts. It delivers effortless, clean cuts with exceptional accuracy, combining heavy-duty reliability with modern ergonomic features to streamline your blank preparation and daily cutting processes.
Applications & Best Uses
The machine’s primary advantage comes down to its sheer reliability and clean cutting mechanics.
Blank Preparation: The primary application of the HS guillotine is preparing perfect sheet metal blanks before folding. It delivers distortion-free, straight cuts across varying materials.
Roofing and Cladding Panels: Quickly sizing and trimming panels, flashings, and trims for custom architectural profiles where clean edges are non-negotiable.
Trimming and Squaring: Achieving perfectly square edges on sheet metal pieces for precision fabrication, ensuring seamless alignment in downstream assembly.
Versatile Workshop Production: Ideal for custom, one-off cuts or short production runs where quick, manual operation is significantly faster and more practical than setting up a motorised shear.
The HS advantage
Engineered for Precision and Durability: Schroeder’s heavy-duty all-steel welded construction ensures a torsion-free base, allowing the cutting blades to maintain perfect alignment even under maximum load, resulting in burr-free cuts every time.
Hands-On Performance:
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Mechanical Hold-Down System: Automatically clamps the sheet metal securely in place just before the blade makes contact, preventing the material from shifting or twisting during the cut.
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High-Quality Cutting Blades: Precision-ground blades designed for longevity, providing exceptionally clean cuts on steel, aluminium, and zinc with minimal wear. Double-edged.
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Ergonomic Cutting Action: The optimised leverage of the manual side handles or foot operation (depending on configuration) ensures maximum cutting force with minimal physical effort from the operator.
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Expandable Work Area: Generous front support arms and an easily adjustable back gauge make positioning large or awkward sheets straightforward and highly accurate.
Standard configuration:
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All-steel welded, rigid construction for torsion-free cutting
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Standard cutting blades are double-edged and suitable for cutting structural steel, aluminium, zinc, and copper (Material strength approx. 400 N/mm²)
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Mechanical hold-down device with non-marking rubber inserts to protect delicate material surfaces.
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Manual back gauge 500mm with a built-in scale for fast and accurate dimension setting.
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Front table with precision-milled reference lines running parallel to the blade for fast, visual alignment and perfectly square cuts without a tape measure.
- Dual Angle Gauges with Inlaid Scales on the left and right squaring guides equipped with highly durable, embedded measuring scales for accurate alignment and sizing from either side of the table.
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Integrated finger guard for maximum operator safety.
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Dual-sided operation capability (handlebar) for ergonomic leverage.
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Adjustable blade clearance to accommodate different material thicknesses
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Extendable front support arms for handling larger sheets
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Scrap chute/drop area for offcuts
Tools/Options
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Blades
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Optional high-carbon, high-chrome blades (surface-hardened) specifically designed for cutting stainless steel (approx. 700 N/mm²)
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Table and back gauge
- 750mm manual back gauge.
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Rack and pinion 750mm back gauge operated from the front via handwheel, including a digital or mechanical read-out
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Mechanical sheet support for manual back gauge 750mm without sheet chute.
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Others
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Sheet chute for blanks to come out the front.
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An extendable catch-ramp that neatly gathers and stacks your cut pieces, saving floor space and keeping your workspace organised.
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Mobile Wheeled Sheet Chute: A heavy-duty, rolling catch-cart that lets you shear your material and easily transport the stacked cuts directly to your next workstation. For cuttings up to a maximum of 500 mm, up to max. 200 kg
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Technical Data
FRIBESCO’s reasons:
Why Choose the HS Guillotine?
✅ Effortless Excenter Power: The advanced excenter mechanism multiplies your leverage, making manual shearing incredibly smooth and virtually effortless
✅ Flawless, Distortion-Free Cuts: Engineered to deliver clean, ridge-free results every time.
✅ Rugged All-Steel Blades: Built to last, the machine comes standard with heavy-duty, double-edged all-steel blades designed for long-term durability and consistent performance.
✅ Pinpoint Accuracy: Standard milled table grooves and dual angle gauges ensure exact positioning
✅ Optimised Workshop Flow: Customise your setup with clever material handling options—like a space-saving telescopic sheet chute that neatly stacks your parts.
The Schroeder guillotine gives professional roofers the edge: faster throughput, consistent accuracy, and long-term reliability.
Contact us today to discuss your requirements and arrange a demo.
Driven by an advanced eccentric mechanism that multiplies your leverage, the Schröder HS Guillotine takes the physical strain out of manual cutting—delivering clean, distortion-free results with surprisingly little effort.
