*Click here for more metal forming machinery. A plasma cutter isn’t exactly a tool that sheet metal workers can carry around in their pockets — as nice as this model from Advance Cutting Systems is.

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Some call hard work, attention to detail and use of hand tools "old fashioned" in today's workplace. Not Dave Gutierrez. He credits his work ethic, and the skill he has brought to his work as a ...

Today, fabricators processing prototypes or low-quantity jobs can print their own press brake tooling. They need to ensure a ...

Legendary hot rodder Stan Betz started punching louvers in Frank Kurtis' shop back in the late Forties. Before long he was the most in-demand louver man in the Orange County area. David Williams, not ...