Best Way To Cut Thick Craft Foam

It s the dumb way to cut foam.

Best way to cut thick craft foam.

Cut the foam with cookie cutters. This technique offers a better cut than straight edge scissors can provide. Select a metal cookie cutter in the shape you want to cut and press it down evenly through the foam. Having no money i cut through five inch thick foam sections by making repeated swipes with a cheapie utility knife like the one above.

One of the things i neglected to mention in my banquette building post was how to cut the foam. Foam sheets aren t thick and will fit within the parameters of the cutter. Cut the foam with an electric knife the type used for carving turkeys. Alternatively use a large razor.

To cut soft or rigid foam that s 1 2 inch 12 mm thick or less lay the foam flat on your work surface. It was time consuming messy far from accurate and doing the curves was a real pain. Ways to cut craft foam by jeanne paglio. Start cutting the foam place the foam on the floor or onto a hard level surface and use an electric knife to cut along the lines you marked if the foam is not so thin.

Purchase your foam here. Move the knife slowly along the markings so that you can see your progress because you will need to cut accurately and linearly so as to ultimately have satisfying results. Cut a smooth even line slowly.