Abstract: This tool permits rapid and easy stripping of the outer insulation from cxial cables or the like. The end of the cable to be stripped is first inserted into a gauging hole in a block of insulating material. A pair of blade-shaped electrical heating elements are clamped against opposite sides of the cable at the mouth of the hole and the cable rotated to form a thermal circumferential cut in the outer insulation. The cable end is then placed in another jig with a V-shaped groove therein and a blade-shaped heating element at the bottom of the groove. A second similar heating element is arranged above the groove and the cable. These two heating elements produce diametrically opposed longitudinal cuts in the insulation, after which two pieces of the insulation can be easily removed.