Best Way To Cut Thick Craft Foam

Ways to cut craft foam by jeanne paglio.

Best way to cut thick craft foam.

Cut the foam with cookie cutters. 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. It was time consuming messy far from accurate and doing the curves was a real pain. Cut the foam with an electric knife the type used for carving turkeys.

Push the edge of the foam against the ridge of the cutter at the top so the foam sheet is even and then run the blade along the section to be cut. Alternatively use a large razor. Purchase your foam here. Our upholstery manager bernie shows you how to cut foam with a bread knife.

Foam sheets aren t thick and will fit within the parameters of the cutter. This technique offers a better cut than straight edge scissors can provide. One of the things i neglected to mention in my banquette building post was how to cut the foam. Cut a smooth even line slowly.

It s the dumb way to cut foam. For thick foam cut about halfway through the foam. 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.