cut flat sheet steel up to 3/16-inch, and pretty much retire your tin snips,” says Phil Heck, owner of Woodward Fab, which offers an amazing variety of metal-working tools perfect for farm shops.

Cut fingers and jagged edges are never far away, so [Kevin Cheung]’s work ... metal sheet. Those edges are probably sharp, but nothing like the jagged finger-cutters you’d get doing the same ...