Lisa Reed is one of those craft people who gets the rare opportunity to see her work displayed at many locations around the Manistee County area. Reed runs Farmside Metal Art in Bear Lake, making ...

Metalworking has always been very much a “mixed method” art. Forging, welding, milling, grinding; anything to remove metal or push ... new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided ...

Witness the precision and innovation behind creating intricate door designs using a CNC plasma cutting machine. Watch as the ...

If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw. In recent decades plasma cutters appeared in some farm shops to take slicing metal to a higher level.

What do you get when you combine an arc cigarette lighter and some scrap glass and metal? [NightHawkInLight] created a simple plasma cutter project along with some hot glue and a few simple tools.

For this approach you don't need to mark your metal first. The computer will direct the plasma cutter to follow the programmed design. This short film explains the different ways to cut metal ...