Student work!

It sure feels great to teach people how to weld and then watch them use their creativity and put their newfound skills to use! So we just wanted to share with you some of the awesome projects our shop time students have completed on their own! I think we all can agree that there is nothing like building something from scratch with your own two hands, especially when it is your own design, which is what we are all about here at MSFC! Sign up for shop time and you too can fulfill on all of your metalworking dreams!

Come Get Your Weld On!

Camden's work

One of our lovely assistants, Camden Place, has been using his shop time wisely, coming in almost every week to practice his metalworking skills. We love to see people bring their design ideas to fruition! Just look at this lovely side table and dresser! All you need is a vision and you can make it come true in metal here at Metal Shop Fantasy Camp! Beautiful work, Camden! You can follow Camden on Instagram @camdensplace

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Partnership with N.Y. Adventure Club

Metal Shop Fantasy Camp is proud to announce our partnership with N.Y. Adventure Club!

N.Y. Adventure Club is a community-driven organization that curates all sorts of tours and experiences around New York City while giving residents and visitors alike insider access to the city’s best-kept secrets, one of which, hint: is us! While the Club primarily focuses on history and storytelling, it also cultivates uniquely New York experiences.

On Sunday, May 20, participants from N.Y. Adventure Club had a uniquely N.Y. experience in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the creative heart of all that is happening here! They explored our shop and learned about our tools. They witnessed the CNC plasma cutter in action, received their very own bottle opener to take home and even got to weld! We hope to have another N.Y. Adventure Club outing in the shop in about a month's time.

We can't recommend N.Y. Adventure Club enough; not only for exclusive access to our shop, but for all your N.Y. adventure needs as well! Their tours include wonderful, memorable experiences such as a behind-the-Scenes tour at Eclectic Props, the largest film & TV prop company in NYC; Underground Manhattan, The Secret History of the Subway System; a trail hike at the Old Croton Aqueduct with rare access inside Abandoned Weir; as well as a private Japanese tea ceremony demonstration at the secret Kyoto Garden, in addition to many more. Check out their website here!

And here are some photos from the afternoon below!

Boy Scout Merit Badge Welding Class is a Success!

We are happy to announce the successful completion of our very first Boy Scout of America Welding Merit Badge class! We had a lot of fun this past weekend in this brand new class; watching these youngsters work and quickly progress to be able to weld in a couple of hours! These scouts now have an additional set of skills to add to their repertoire, and another merit badge to show for efforts. The class was such a success, we already have interest in future classes, which are now on the schedule and will start in the new year! 

Come get your weld on!

A Brooklyn Metal Partnership!

If you were not already aware, there is a great need for skilled metalworkers in the United States. That is why we at Metal Shop Fantasy Camp are so proud of what we do and love teaching others to weld! It is also why we decided to partner with other experienced metal shop owners in Brooklyn for our first ever Brooklyn Metal Partnership Training. For the past three months, nine participants took classes with Argosy Designs, WaxRax, Bott Welding & Consulting, Lee Spring and Metal Shop Fantasy Camp to learn metal fabrication and welding with the goal of catapulting them into careers in the field. Participants rapidly immersed themselves in various aspects of metalwork such as shop drawings, layout, machinery, fabrication into production, welding, and finishing.

The skills these students developed are for the real world since they have been trained by those who work in the real world each day, and they can now put these skills to work! Total Metal Resource is thus very happy to have hired two BMP students as interns and we are proud to have them on our team!

 

 

 

 

An assistant builds!

You may have had the pleasure of taking a class when our lovely assistant, Mec, was helping out. We just had to share the workspace she is currently building in her back yard (with a little help from her dad). She will soon come into the shop to work on a lumber rack and a few other fixtures for it and we can't wait to see the completed project and most importantly, what she will create in her space! Just as it is for us, we hope this is an inspiration for you to get out there and build your dreams! Rock on, Mec! You can follow Mec on Instagram here and on Twitter here.

Blacksmithing classes on the way!

We are excited to announce our very first blacksmithing class! In this two hour long class with blacksmith Theo Nazz, students will be introduced to the art of blacksmithing by creating their very own bottle opener to take home! Welding metal is super fun and satisfying, but heating, pounding, and forging steel into a desired shape takes it to a whole new level of metalworking excitement and satisfaction! Check out the photos from our demo below!

Once we have these intro classes off the ground, look for knife making classes where students use the techniques they learn in the intro class to forge their very own, one-of-a-kind knife!

Fire and metal, bring it on!

A big thank you!

We would like to again thank the very talented Mr. James Jones. He shot the awesome Metal Shop Fantasy Camp video for us, and it's getting a lot of traction. Visit his site to check out other videos he's done!

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So many happy faces!

We had a great time at Metal Shop Fantasy Camp last week. There was a first date, and man who brought his fiancé on a date, and even some of our own TMR staff!

It was very exciting from a visitor's perspective to watch the progress as students learned to handle the equipment and work on assembling and finishing their cubes. In many ways, it was like watching a kid on Christmas, seeing the amazement in their eyes as the project came together.

Though I did not actively participate, i still learned a lot. Now I'm ready to sign up to build my own cube!

TMRnyc’s Scott Behr Talks with The Fabricator® on Metalworking, Metal Shop Fantasy Camp, and Why People Love Tools

It’s dream-come-true day for TMRnyc. 

We’re pleased to announce our debut in The Fabricator®—North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. And call us biased, but they made some pretty great observations:

“[Scott] Behr has found that many people he meets or knows are fascinated with what he does for a living, and it’s easy to understand why. TMRnyc has made its mark in the various boroughs of New York City… [with] high-profile, signature projects, including the Chobani SoHo storefront; Sprinkles Cupcakes in Manhattan; and the Shinola flagship store in Tribeca.”

Featured as a “Fab Story” on the coveted back page, the 800-word article spans some favorite TMRnyc projects, the inception and success of Metal Shop Fantasy Camp, and what’s so attractive about learning a trade (or dabbling in it). Scott offers some choice insight:

“…many people grow up nowadays not knowing how to do things, and I think using tools is a basic instinct that we have as humans. I think most people have a curiosity about working with tools.”

Thanks to The Fabricator®, and writer/associate editor Amanda Carlson for featuring TMRnyc! To read the entire article, buy the January issue of The Fabricator®, or check it out online.

Blizzard Weekend Gets Melted Down

It was a fantastic day in Metal Shop Fantasy Land today. Happy New Year Everyone! Thank you to Ben and Euralis for coming out and braving the cold. A special thank you to Michelle David today for assisting and being awesome.