*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.

This updated edition of a classic American Tech textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of layout, cutting, forming, and fabrication of sheet metal. It can serve as a useful training ...

If you have ever looked closely at a typical mass-produced automobile, you will be familiar with pressed-steel panels. Complex curves can be repeated thousands of times over, by putting a sheet of ...

Harbor Freight has a long history as a retailer of budget-friendly tools suitable for the DIY hobbyist workshop, in addition to some otherwise unexpected Harbor Freight items. Anyone interested in ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — A pair of old shears hung on the office wall of Jimmy Weaver's Newport Sheet Metal shop. Weaver kept them from his first days in the business decades ago as a reminder of how technology ...