But “cheap” and “good” don’t always intersect on a Venn diagram, and even when they do, not every plasma cutter is suitable for use on the spanking new CNC table you’re building.

Reed runs Farmside Metal Art in Bear Lake, making metal signs through the use of computer numerical control plasma cutting. A CNC cutter is a thermal cutting tool that uses a plasma torch to cut ...

Metalworking has always been very much a “mixed method” art. Forging ... Adding in fancy new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided drafting doesn’t change that much, although ...