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 ...

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.

“Yeah, that was intentional,” he said. LeGrand wanted to highlight his plasma cutting work to separate himself from other ...