BEAR LAKE — Lisa Reed is one of those craft people who gets the rare ... through the use of computer numerical control plasma cutting. A CNC cutter is a thermal cutting tool that uses a 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.

Adding in fancy new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided drafting doesn’t change that much, although new methods often do call for a little improvisation. Getting several ...