New line of foam cutting bows

Thank you Levent for your appreciative comments.

Tasos.

I don't really have a use for one, as I don't cut wing cores, but
they are sunning. I wish I needed one.
Bob

Hello,

Positive comments like these surely spur the urge to strive for good quality… so thank you all!

Maybe it is time for one of my bed time sentimental stories, which is very true also…

When I was just a youngster … (about four long decades ago!)… I excitedly read articles in R/C model magazines about foam cutting and drooled over photos of those marvelously pure white foam core wings the experts easily produced…

I was practically ignorant of the subject but was also armed with great passion so decided to surpass my initial fears, give it a go and built my own bow, found a suitable long piece of rectangular pine in my local woodworking shop (the friendly owner never got tired of having me around…he was like Santa Claus to me!)…quickly proceeded to drill and attach two piece of thick steel wires at the ends acting as bow legs…hey it was promising!

But the big obstacle was yet to come…that magical Nichrome wire referred at the magazine articles was as easy to find as a pin in a hay stack…but this was the main ingredient for a proper cutting string so I had to find it!

For the next couple of weeks I searched (mainly by foot) through every hardware and related shops with no results…most of the times when I mentioned the appropriate Greek word for Nichrome (spelled a mouth crunching word: Chromonicelini) the shop owners just looked at me critically as if I was searching for fool’s gold!. Must have searched through a hundred shops and my feet really swelled and heart but I was determined to find it!

When all seemed lost I just passed a street corner and there was a small shop that had electrical appliance spare parts, in my amazement he knew about this miraculous wire and quickly searched through his drawers…he produced a shiny piece of thin wire and offered it to my trembling hand…I was truly ecstatic...quickly bought it and went home with feet that didn’t even touched the ground!!!

The rest is just history…powered by my dad’s old 12V car battery my somewhat elementary bow only produced mediocre results, but the sizzling sound of that wire slicing through the foam was music to my ears…and at least I was cutting foam cores with an urge and willingness to progress as even from my teenage days my mind was always channeled towards perfection…through the following years I developed many new ideas and bow versions but always felt I had not reached the best concept… yet.

So you now can see that I just consider my A-Just bows as the long time passionate effort and outcome of this youngster’s valiant search for a foam cutting bow. We are all motivated by dreams and passions …striving to make them reality and happily sharing with others is the most enjoyable experience!

Regards to you all and thanks again!
Tasos.

Hello Tasos,  where do you get the foam to cut with your bows?  Do you have a link?

Edit: OOPS, I see you are from Greece, I'm in the US

Matt there are a few here that can answer that question just hold on or start a new thread asking ? here are some results from search but no answer .. https://www.coxengineforum.com/search?search_keywords=hwere+to+buy+foam

Hello Matt,

I am sure that for ordinary/common types of EPS and XPS you will find no real difficulty obtaining sheets from US shops dealing with insulating materials, but there are some special types,( particularly high density/high impact rating XPS) that are really difficult to find and obtain in small quantities… in Greece or US.

Will be glad to assist you with your project if you need advice…
Regards Tasos