ROMECH Hot Knife Foam Cutter, 200W Electric Foam Cutting Tool Kit with Blades & Heavy-Duty Case for EPS, XPS, EVA, EPP RM-005 (200W)

Tried so many styrofoam cutter & they have all been useless. No quick heat, flimsy cutting wire. no on/off trigger. This one has it ALL. Changeable heating rods, trigger operation & fast heat. It's the absolute benchmark & probably good enough for work use. For home it's a winner!! Bonus - comes in a nice case with a stand plus its can hang. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. One that works!!

Absolute game changer!! Works like a charm. Perfect for making backdrops or theater sets with foam. Slices thru foam with ease.

The only thing I did not like was the mechanism for supporting the iron when not in use. There was a thin metal support onto which you are supposed to lean the hot iron, but it seems a bit wobbly when the cord is coming out of the base of the gun and the hot iron is on the stand. If they could engineer a slightly stronger option, it would improve. The tool cuts like butter, though, and did exactly what I hoped it would do!

great tool; just make sure you clean the blade after using it

This was easy to use. It does get quite hot and you need to move it and not leave it in one spot for too long, but it works quite well. It cut large pieces of foam for me like running a butter knife through butter. It’s not always the easiest to shape, depending on how thick your foam is, but it gets through dense and thinner, more airy foam quite easily. I would recommend this.

Came damaged, broken case. It works okay, has 2 blades, they both get hot. It is kinda cheap but I expected that. A little disappointed it came damaged and the case is broken but glad it still works.

This is a great foam cutter, especially for the price. My business uses curved foam blocks as void fill for specific pre-cast concrete products. I used to order the blocks pre-cut to shape, and at $5.00 apiece, they weren't cheap. Now, I can buy bulk foam sheets and cut the blocks myself using a table-top jig. That drove the price down to around $1.80 apiece. The money I save means this tool literally paid for itself with the first 50 blocks I cut. It does get warm after a while, and the instructions say to let it rest for roughly the same amount of time as you use it (10 seconds on, 10 seconds off, for example). My cuts are short, averaging 20 seconds a run, and it takes about that long to reset the jig after a cut, so this thing is perfect for the job. Kit comes with all the bits you need, including the Allen key required to attach or remove the blade. The blades have individual cases. There is a cleaning brush and a simple set of instructions. My only beef with this thing is that the instructions don't provide temperatures for each heat setting, but a little experimenting had me cutting with minimal smoke in under 5 minutes. Pro tip: KEEP THIS THING MOVING! If you have to pause during a cut, pull the blade clear of the foam, or the results will be sub-optimal to say the least! That's not a fault of this tool, just the result of high heat in close proximity to foam products. It lives in a very solid vacuum formed case with a slot for every part. Each part locks into the case securely when stored, so no worries about jostling or tumbling parts getting beat up or broken in transit. All in all a very good tool at the right price. Highly recommended!

It does cut fairly painlessly, feels smooth, but the blade warps IMMEDIATELY. Material gets caught in-between the bottom and top pieces of the blade, where at several points, made gaps as big as an inch. Hopeful my pictures capture that. These were pieces spray-foamed together and should be perfectly flush with one or another. I'm not entirely sure if I should have gone with a cheaper product, considering that I might get the same result. Their instructions are bare minimum and I followed them to a "T". Definately "made in China" instructions--poorly edited, missed spelling, and a lack of clarity. Temperature dial has zero markers, so that's hard to get right. My pet peeve is instructions that say things like "place blade into proper grooves," without some sort of part diagram that shows placement and "proper grooves". I'm not an expert, but technical instructions are supposed to be made to instruct the biggest dummy who can read or see. What "proper grooves"? What are these loose pieces of metal where the blade sits inside? Maybe I'm doing it right, maybe it's all intuitive, but I am the person who wants to KNOW I am doing it right, and proper technical instructions should be able to tell you that. That's literally instruction writing 101--instruct as if no one knows anything about anything so they can follow piece by piece. But mostly, despite that rant, the immediate warped blade ticked me off above all else.