The 8 Best hotknife kits (2023 reviews)

The tgk hotknife kit is capable of outshining several other kit featured in this list in overall features. The TGK Heavy Duty Hot Air Gun is a well made professional quality tool. It is ideal for use for shrink wrapping/pvc, vinyl wrap, epoxy resin, heat shrink tube, lighting charcoal, candle making, electronics repair, remove paint, etc. The heat is very powerful and can be tuned to your liking.

The heat gun is easy to use, just press the red button and has 2 settings low and high. Another great feature is the variable heat temperature setting that controls the temperature within the minimum and maximum temperatures within each heat range. It comes with heavy duty gloves and a handful of attachments to adjust or focus the heat. The left side of the handle is equipped with a temperature adjustment knob, more convenient to adjust the temp with one hand, free your hands.

Why We Like This:

Love the temperature control, super easy to use
Designed primarily to remove paint and varnish from wood
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For Foam: Lexivon hotknife Kit

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If you often find yourself scrambling for convenient and suitable kit, lexivon hotknife kit is your end point. It's great as an open flame handheld torch. It's 5x refined and filtered butane, quite good for any butane torches. There is a metal nut that tightens these parts to the base, and the black plastic ring/nut that holds the outer shield on top of this metal nut. It heats up quick enough to melt solder almost instantly and can get metal or glass ret hot in a matter of seconds. It also has a hot air tip and deflector which both work great on heat shrink tubing.

The torch and accessories are of good quality and craftsmanship. The different tips are fairly versatile and easy to switch between. It comes with a nice case and attachments for all your sodering and small torch needs. The torch-filling valve is designed to be compatible with the standard butane canisters in the market, commonly used with portable torches and jet lighters.

Why We Like This:

Packaged nicely and the case is of convenient size and compact as well
Nice overall feel and many accessories
Very large, all metal butane storage canister

Best For starters: SREMTCH hotknife Kit

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The sremtch hotknife kit's high-end materials makes sure that it ages well with use. This soldering kit has what you need, so it's a good place to start if your tools are old or misplaced. It is a light duty soldering kit meant for thin gauge wire soldering. It comes with a variety of tips, along with alphabetical letters and numbers to help with wood burning names and numbers. The included storage bag easily holds all the included pieces and keeps pieces from going astray. The iron has a nice feel to it, and it has a great ergonomic grip to insulate from the heat.

It's great for learning really basic soldering though.

Why We Like This:

Nice simple soldering iron with a good selection of different tips
Included solder paste and heat shrink useable
Very straightforward, high quality tips, good tip selection, solder is just ok
Portable and has everything you will need to solder

Best For hobbyists: Afantti hotknife Kit

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If you often find yourself confused about convenient and suitable kit, afantti hotknife kit should be your first option for buying. It’s a great starter kit for wood burning crafters, beginners or hobbyists alike. It comes with 23 high impetence tips, no bending, no carbon deposit under high working temperature. It heats up super quick and the kit has everything you need machine wise to get started. It’s easy to use, compact, and comes with a carrying case that everything can be stored in.

The wood draws the heat away from the tip so practice is needed. It heats quickly, the handle is fairly well insulated though if you turn it to high heat you it will become a bit uncomfortable and worse, the plastic portion near the end of the tip will start to melt. They do make Finger Caps a lot of crafters use when using hot glue. This is a high quality setup that includes many different tips for any type of project you have in mind.

Why We Like This:

Work in a well ventilated space as there may be fumes during wood burning
Only takes about 2 minutes to heat up, and 3-5 minutes to cool off
Heats up quickly burns nice controllable heat for different projects
Writes smoothly and burns quickly through the wood without difficulty

Best For rubber: ADIIL hotknife Kit

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The adiil hotknife kit is capable of outshining several other kit featured in this list in overall features in its price range. This wood burning tool kit comes with 23 different interchangeable wire tips, wood pieces, and instructions. It offers flexibility between 2 different tips without having to stop and switch tips, just simply flip a switch and move between the two very easily. This pyrography pen can cut your burning time in half. It can be used on wood, leather, and more. It is easy to control, and because the handle-to-tip distance is shorter, making it easier to draw precise lines with confidence.

This tool speeds up the burning process. It is easy to use as a beginner and works great.

Why We Like This:

One hot at a time and easy to change out heads
Works great heats and cools fast, burns consistant
Heats up and cools down fast makes it a time saver
Great little wood burning tool kit

Best For Plastic: Wooever hotknife Kit

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The wooever hotknife kit is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily purpose. It is a really nice little wood burning kit. It comes with a decent amount of tips and a decent intro level variety. The dial in control helps with woodburning whether it’s soft or hard to control how much burn temperature you need. It works great and heats up quick. The handles are easy to grip and control with lots of extra replacements for the tips. It's so much fun to use. The pens hold up well.

Why We Like This:

Delivers what they promise
Good investment for long term

Best With hotknife: Hercules hotknife Kit

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We would, of course, be remiss if we didn't mention hercules hotknife kit for regular usage. This unit is far more durable than the non-air cooled units. The 590 electric hot knife has a built-in fan which provides continuous cooling, allowing the unit to be used non-stop for your entire project, instead of forcing you to stop every. The Volt cord allows you the freedom to move around your workspace.

The tool gets VERY HOT very quickly and cuts through pink foam like a hot knife through butter. It's either full "on" hot or "off. It is easy to use, fast heat-up timing, and excellent efficiency. It is great for commercial use.

Why We Like This:

Much less messy than using a saw or knife
Optional sleds and guides provide endless cutting versatility
Fifteen heat-intensity graduations ensure the proper temperature for any job
Make your life easy and no mess

Best For Cutting Foam: HARDELL hotknife Kit

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Hardell is known for creating pragmatic and minimalist kit for people on the go, and its line of hardell hotknife kit definitely falls in line with that reputation. This foam cutter moves easily and elegantly through styrofoam or any thermoplastic foam product, leaving a smooth, clean finish that looks like it came from the manufacturer that way. It cuts through the high density foam like butter and makes a nice smooth cut without ragged edges and it takes a quarter of the time of cutting it out with a knife. It also contains a brush for cleaning residue off the knives, a handy stand to keep the cutter away from vulnerable surfaces (or fingers) when hot, and some replacement wire for the wire knife.

The wire is nice and quick, as is the carving tip. It's a fairly simple set, but it's really all you need to cut styrofoam. It's a fun little tool that is worth having if you need to work with foam.

Why We Like This:

Easy to use with a professional finish
Heats up quickly and cuts well
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