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Working with Metals

While the woodshop may be where I’m most comfortable, I’ve been fascinated by metalwork for some time. I’m always watching for tips and tricks I can steal for my own use, and as such I’ve become attached to a few methods of working with metal in my own shop. Of course, metalwork is far too expansive to cover in just two pages, but here are several things that have helped a woodworker like me bridge the gap to metalwork.

Cutting

When I need to work with metal, that almost always means some cutting. I find there are two ways to go about it, depending on whether

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