Crafters Basic Sculpting Tool Kit #K02B

Great product! Loved being able to quickly catch on to how to best use this tool for sculpting. Changing wires is easy. I guess now I'll be springing for the one that has the controllable thermostat and heavier wire. I've not had this much fun in ages!

Just what I needed to further my Mountain Scenery work. Was able to cut down foam slab edges much faster than using my foam rasp tool.

Then I followed up with the rasp to blend the edges to a smooth slope.

I also narrowed the arms to make a sharper wire loop to carve out a ditch and pond into the flat foam base layer.

Great and clean for cutting foam. Very good for carving rivers for dioramas

This simple well made tool was so handy, that I was able to complete an entire life size horse head and neck sculpture using only this tool, and some sandpaper for the finishing details! And that was the first time I ever used it. You can take off nice flat sections and go right into removing indented and shaped areas just by easing up the tension with your fingers. Makes nice clean removal without the burnout or melting of the surface that you get with a hot knife. I put the fine details in with sandpaper and this tool left the surface in perfect shape to use sandpaper on. The hot knives tend to leave a melted hard surface that is impossible to sand but this hot wire left no melting behind! This is a "must have" tool for me from now on! Thanks to all the folks at the Hot Wire Foam Factory for answering all my questions and shipping it out so quickly.

I bought this product to sculpt a village display. As a novice, I found this tool extremely easy to use. It did everything I needed it to. It is very well-made, and I expect to purchase more of the products in this line.