Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw.

Metals such as copper, aluminum, brass, and cold-rolled steel are generally soft, and tin snips are usually suitable for cutting these softer metals. Most strong and thick sheet metals will ...

Carter III, recalled. This was the beginning of “The Snips,” as the magazine would be called. The name was thought up by Carter and Walter J. Joy Sr., then the president of Republic Metals of Chicago, ...