STURGIS, MI --A plasma cutter, cutting torches with tanks, hand tools, chop saws and grinders were taken from Black Gold Farms, 69331 Klinger Lake Rd. in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Affordable plasma cutters are becoming a popular step up from an angle grinder for cutting sheet metal in the home workshop, but cutting long straight lines can be laborious and less than accurate.

[Daniel] has been metalworking on a budget for a while now. Originally doing things like plasma cutting on old bricks, he used his original plasma cutter to make an appropriate plasma cutting table ...