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Foam Cutter Peripherals This tool makes a plain hot wire foam cutter much more useful, allowing the user to accurately cut sophisticated shapes. Normally, a foam cutter allows one to cut an outline, or silhouette, in one plane. Once this is done, the workpiece is no long square, making cutting outlines from other orientations very difficult. (The piece has no flat surface to rest on the foamcutter platform.) This tool is essentially a clamp and template. It can hold the work solidly in multiple orientations above the foamcutter surface. Also, the user can place a template above the work, and follow the drawing with the wire exactly.

The workpiece is held between the two circles.	The four red knobs lock the clamp orientation and position.
A drawing set on this surface can serve as a cutting guide.	The vertical at the back is a handle. Typically, the user places the fingers of the second hand on one of the forward gray corners.
Even with the above tool, a straight wire foamcutter has its limitations. It cannot cut purely concave forms. Fortunately, this second tool, a foam cutting pen, fills this gap.

Copyright Jim Gouldstone 2004