Lisa Reed of Bear Lake uses CNC plasma cutting to craft metal signs, turning her passion into a thriving business.

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

There are a number of different ways to cut ... metal snagging or tearing. Edges are shaped and flattened by cross filing, smoothed by draw filing and softened using an emery cloth. A CNC plasma ...

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.