WINONS Hot Wire Foam Cutter, WFC-0001 Polystyrene and Styrofoam Cutter Same as a Hot Knife Foam Cutting Tool-Kit of 3 Tools

Works well

I got this mostly to cut up styrofoam and wow does it! Seamlessly and quickly. I craft a lot so I’m sure I will find many uses for. Happy with this product. Heated up very quickly. Use hand protection esp, gets very hot.

I got a very large Ashland solid foam pumpkin from Michaels for my Halloween project and decided to try this hot knife to cut it. After pre-cutting the pumpkin with an Xacto knife and then a larger box cutter, I started with the smaller (engraving) tip and made it about 3/4 of the way around the mouth before it stopped heating. I waited a few minutes in case it was overheating, and then changed to the longer tip, since that was my goal. The long tip flexed and bent quite a lot and even started separating at its seam. I stopped using it at this point, and tried the short tip again, but it will not heat with that tip in the handle. Hopefully this is salvageable, as these pumpkins are becoming rare and very expensive.The jagged lines in the pictures are from the hot knife, and the clean lines are from the Xacto.

Received my hand held Foam knife and hot wire cutter it seems to work pretty good I did a simple test of each of the Cutting tools the Hot Wire bow works Really well and heats up to cut quickly, The Long knife and the Short one do not cut as easily and I noticed that they do not heat up very quick at the tip if you want to pierce the foam (I'm using primarily xps foam) but we will have to test it further and see if time gives it heat at the tip for penetration holes in the foam. We will have to see how it handles over time but its a nice set of starter tools and its thoughtful tthat they not only give the NICAD wire Strung on the Hot wire tool but they give you a few feet of extra wire. The Tips interchange fairly easy there is some tightness in fitting each which is good so that you don't have the tips falling off during work. The Blades do get really hot at the sides so Please Be aware if you touch them you could get a nasty burn. Overall a good and useful crafting tool at a reasonable price.

My use was a bit different than normal. I used this to effortlessly slice through foam tape that was holding an item I wanted to remove from a wall. It sliced right through the tape so I could then detach the item. I highly recommend it. Worked great!

I knew going into this that a $20 hot knife would be a gamble for my intended usage but the description claims it could handle what I needed it to. Well, it can’t. This might be good enough for a hobbyist if you’re making small ornaments/figures or decor, but if you need to cut any high density, thick foam for any industry related to packing, shipping, manufacturing etc, it just cannot keep up at all. It would take 10 mins for it to get thru a 3ft length of 3 inch standard styrofoam. Since I don’t need artist level accuracy, I’m going back to my $10 setup which consists of a propane blowtorch and an old thin but long bread knife. Torch the blade until it’s red hot and than you get close to 60 seconds of cutting thru any density/size foam, albeit crude, messy, potentially dangerous if you’re the type of walking hazard who trips over a grasshopper

Excelente

Excellent