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 ...

Metal artisan Sue Quatmann sees art in things that many may consider junk. This Jordan artist takes her creativity and ingenuity and lights it on fire. Her art is considered recycled art and is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.