01x01 - Test Your Metal

[bunniefuu]

[Jo Koy]
When you apply an electric current

that creates hundreds of degrees of heat

to a simple piece of metal,

you can make the toughest material
melt and bend to your will,

and create badass works of art
from hardened steel.

Yo, that's so crazy!

Welcome to the modern,
mind-blowing world of metal art,

where seven
of the most talented fabricators

will face off
in a one-of-a-kind competition.

I'm gonna be on TV!

[Jo Koy] They'll torch, grind, cut,

and weld everything
from robots to road warriors.

Oh, that's crazy!

That's nuts.

-It's an all-out battle...
-Guys, step up! Frank's k*lling it.

...to be the best.

Turn on your torches...

[whirring]

It's not working.

[Jo Koy] ...cause it's about to get lit.

This is Metal Shop Masters.

Why can't I get a welding helmet?

[upbeat music playing]

Welders!

Welcome to the biggest
metal work exhibition of your careers.

No pressure!

[laughing]

[Jo Koy] You've been invited
because you're the best at what you do.

Combined, out of all seven of you,

you have over 100 years
of experience turning heavy a*s metal

into badass creations.

Over the next several weeks,
your talents will be tested.

And in the end, one of you

is going to earn
the title Metal Shop Master.

And you're going to leave here
with $50,000!

Our talented judges,
Stephanie Hoffman and David Madero,

will decide who created world class work,

or who will get torched.

I know that's a horrible pun.

But that's what will happen.
We will physically torch you.

[Rae] At this point, my armpits
are sweating, other places are sweating.

I don't know what's going down,
but I'm sure it's going to be scary.

[Jo Koy] For nearly two decades,

Stephanie has worked as
a highly-skilled welder and fabricator.

David Madero is a world-renowned sculptor
and furniture designer.

[Leah] David Madero is a hero of mine.

Being in the same room with him
was a pretty big deal.

I was a little intimidated because
they're both badass welder-fabricators.

As a welder-fabricator, and the face
of the American Welding Society,

some of the things
I'll look for are technical execution

of those processes
that you'll use in the shop.

I'll also look for ethically rad
ingenuity in all of your pieces.

I want everybody
to be completely original.

Use your heart, your emotions.

Just be fearless.

[Jo Koy] Welders,
we gave you an inspiration

for your first piece,
and that inspiration was you.

We asked you to design
and build an avatar of yourself.

It could be a self-portrait,
or you as a superhero,

or even something
as crazy as a sea creature.

[Frank] When they said avatar,
my first thought was,

"Avatar? Avatar."

Never really thought about
what an avatar even was.

I saw the movie Avatar.

We also wanted it
to have one moving element.

As you know, you were all given homework.

And by that, I mean
you had two weeks to work at home,

to design and source
all the individual parts

you needed to assemble
and construct your avatar in our shop.

Your unfinished builds were boxed up,

and shipped here.

You will have ten hours

to cut, grind, bend, torch,
and assemble an awesome avatar.

[Seven] Having ten hours to fabricate this

is terrifying.

Uh... [chuckles]

[Jo Koy] Welders.

Your ten hours...

start now. Go!

[vibrant music playing]

[Jo Koy] Stephanie, David,
for today's challenge,

we've asked our welders to create an
avatar that represents them as an artist,

has at least one moving part,
is designed and sourced at home,

and is welded and fabricated
in the studio.

They'll have ten hours
to complete this challenge.

What are we looking for
in this first challenge?

And most importantly, why an avatar?

We wanted them
to completely express themselves.

Just shows who they are,
their personality.

We want them to use
a whole bunch of materials,

different processes. We want them
to get really, really creative.

It's gonna be really important
that they show us, in one piece,

all their skills and technical abilities

because this is their first time
to really show us what they're all about.

[Ivan] Obviously, the first thing I do
is open up my crate

and start pulling the pieces out
and thinking about what I have to do.

I heard that for this challenge,
they wanted it to be kinetic somehow.

That was like, right up my alley.

For my avatar, I will be making myself.

I'll be standing at an anvil,
have a piece of my face missing,

and have a piece of it in my hand.
I'll raise it up to my face.

For my avatar, I figured

it would be easier to make him my size.

So I can get measurements
without scaling anything.

From there, I just started making
my basic structure, my starting point.

Then I just cast the face.

It's not pretty
but I think it's going to work.

[chuckling]

The welding process that I'm using
to build this thing is MIG welding.

It's like a hot glue g*n of welding.

If you've never welded before,
MIG is a pretty good place to start.

Basically what I'm doing,
is get everything to line up.

Make sure the pieces and parts
will run through with each other.

Just so I can figure out the mechanics.
Hopefully do what it's supposed to.

I have no idea how long that will take,
and if I don't figure it out, I'm sunk.

[sizzling]

We're seeing a lot
of different techniques here

used by a lot of different types of people
in the industry.

You've got Ivan,
who is very burly in his actions

when it comes to forming and making metal.

Then you've got Lou,
who's more technically trained

on the computer side of things.

His lane, of what he does,

is very specific, and it might do him
a disadvantage here in the competition.

This is Louis Frederico. I go by Lou.

I'm a metal artist
out of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico.

I've got four major installations
in downtown Las Vegas.

I've kind of been in the creative realm
ever since I can remember.

-That's stupid. [chuckles]
-[interviewer] Why?

"The creative realm."

[laughing]

I was born into creative realm.

For my avatar,
I decided to tap into my culture.

The whole Day of the Dead thing
came into my head.

And I was like, "skull"!

I lean towards the CNC
computer-aided design side of things.

CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control.

And what that basically means
is that you use a computer to draw,

and then you let a machine cut for you.

[sizzling]

[Lou] Then I started making my cut sheets,
which takes the form from a 3D shape,

and I flatten it out
and I start laying it down

on a 4 x 8 sheet of material, which is
what I ended up cutting it out of.

The skull ended up being about 92 pieces.

And I did stack it all out,
and see what I had.

I'm worried about weight,
and I'm worried that

I won't be able to lift this thing up
and put it on its pedestal.

So, basically
what we have is planetary gears.

They're called planetary gears
because there's a central gear

that drives a series of gears.

Back here is a hand-operated gear,

that will turn everything.

I'm always concerned
about anything that rotates and moves,

and has relationships with other parts.

So, the gears could
potentially be a problem.

Because I haven't really
proven the concept of those gears,

and that's the first thing
I know I need to figure out.

What Luis is doing
is showing a whole different aspect

of what you can do
with welding and technology these days.

It is very different than,
see, looking at Rae's stuff.

All of those flowers are hand-cut by her.

[buzzing]

My name is Rae. I'm 35 years old,
and I'm from Big Spring, Texas.

My stomach feels like it's gonna
fall out my butt, but it's all right.

We're gonna do this anyway.

I try to be as positive as possible,
all the time.

Like an annoying ray of sunshine.

Hence the name. Hence the name.

I'm a full-time welder,
fabricator, sculptor, builder, painter...

I'm a one-woman show.

My first piece that ever put me
really on the map as an artist

was a dress.

And it was a mannequin.

I'm incorporating
who I am now as an artist,

versus who I was then.

My design idea is,
I'm going to be building a dress,

using baling wire to hold in
all these pieces together.

And then I free-hand sculpted wings.

I wanted that initial wow factor to be,
"Yeah, they move in and out!"

But the wow factor is,
you can put these on and wear them.

This avatar represents who I am now,
which is like... flying.

I'm spreading my wings to fly.

I think welding did help save me in a way.

I was pretty much
raised by two parents, two addictions.

Ran away from home when I was 14,

and had my daughter at 17.

When I got into art,
and welding and fabrication,

it was like I slowly started to
become who I was supposed to be.

I wanted to stay true to what my craft is,

and that's free-hand plasma cutting.

So I am free-handing a ton of roses.

Plasma cutters is a tool you use
to cut things freely with your hand.

Very quick and easy.

But if you use it a lot, like I do,

you can kind of
turn yourself into a human CNC.

And that's kind of what I've done.

[buzzing]

[upbeat music playing]

I think we have a problem.

David!

What do you think about this?

[David] That's welded. No.

-Nothing can be pre-welded.
-She welded everything on here.

So, Rae, in the rules,

the materials couldn't be
welded together at home.

That's... That's welded together.

Please don't tell me
you welded everything.

No, I still have so much work to do.

I thought it just
couldn't be welded together.

No. No.

[David] The rules were to design
and source parts at home,

but couldn't weld them together.

You welded everything?

-[Rae] Okay.
-[David] This is not good.

You're at an advantage to everyone else
who doesn't have anything welded.

-[Rae] So what should I do?
-[Stephanie] You have ten hours.

You can start over,
or you need to cut all of this.

-Okay, I'm gonna cut it.
-All right, get to work.

[Rae] In the mix up
of the craziness at home,

I overlooked some things,
and I welded together the wings.

Now I have to take the whole thing apart.

I'll take the whole damn thing apart
and rebuild it if I need to, to be here.

So, I'm not going anywhere.

[sizzling]

There is no way I'll finish this on time.

[upbeat music playing]

[buzzing]

When you said
you need to cut this thing apart

and start from scratch, in my mind,

it's gonna ruin the whole thing.

Now she's got to take off the old weld,
sand and grind it down.

-It will look like raw steel.
-Pretty much.

-And then re-weld.
-Yeah.

Do you guys hear
how stressful this gig is?

[Seven] My game plan is to start
with the base first and then build up.

My name is Seven Bailey. I'm 39,
and I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I say that I got into welding
because I watched Flash Danceas a kid,

and fell in love
with Jennifer Beals' dance and welding.

I am married to a burlesque performer.

When you get me and her together,
we are Flash Dance.

I'm living my dream.

I'm so fortunate and lucky, honestly.

I'm a welder, fabricator, artist,

and over the past 17 years, I've welded
just about anything you can think of.

For this challenge, I can't just create
an avatar that just represents me,

because right now, I represent every
Black person in America at the moment.

So I'm creating a sculpture
of a rooted closed fist.

The closed fist represents
the fight, resilience, resistance.

The inside of the palm of this sculpture,
I really wanted to lift up,

and to kind of have a lock box
to write goals, set intentions

and bring them to fruition.

I'm thinking about
this cool sprocket type being my base.

My game plan is definitely to start
with the base first and then build up.

What I ended up doing was taking
a whole bunch of pre-fabricated pieces.

I kind of want it to mimic my own arm
as much as possible.

I am ready.

This opportunity has given me
exactly what I want to be doing.

[David] Seven.

Where did you get all this stuff from?

I'm a scrapper by nature.

In general what I do
is buy material by weight.

-We asked to not use prefabricated things.
-Right.

We didn't want you to just
stick prefabricated things together.

-[Seven] Right.
-We wanted to see your fabrication.

So, it sucks, but look outside the box.
Maybe go outside your comfort zone.

[David] You can maybe make something new.

I'm feeling defeated at the moment,
to be honest.

So, yeah, hopefully I miraculously
work my way out of it, or I'm screwed.

-Kind of confused. And I feel really bad.
-[David] Yeah, yeah.

-I know Rae has to take hers apart.
-[Stephanie] Right.

Rae just has to take hers apart.
Seven has to throw theirs away.

-[David] From scratch now.
-[Jo Koy] Oh, no.

Things were already made.
They just stuck them together.

[Rae] It set me back a few hours, but you
know, I've built under pressure before.

Maybe if I like...

Bust a*s and pray a little bit,
maybe I'll get it?

I don't know, we'll see what happens.

[buzzing]

[Jo Koy] When Rae started sweating,
she took off that jacket.

-Is that something you do?
-Talk about the safety steps.

We're all guilty of having those moments
where it's hot,

and you're gonna take your jacket off
just to do a quick weld somewhere.

But you must protect your skin.

If you think a sunburn's bad,
the burn from that UV

that's coming off that arc
is ten times worse.

And it's not always
about what you're doing.

It's about, I mean... this shop.
This stuff is...

-Those are 4500 RPM on that grinder.
-[Jo Koy] Yeah.

That thing is gonna sh**t,
and it's gonna sh**t far.

You can be over here,
and she can be down yonder

and she'll get hit in the face.

-What?
-[Stephanie] Yeah.

That's shards of metal.

When you see those little orange things
flying off, that's pieces of metal?

Like little daggers in your eyes.
Think about that.

-And she took off her jacket?
-[chuckling]

You're crazy, Rae!

-[David laughs]
-You're crazy!

[upbeat music playing]

[Jo Koy] Tom's like a doctor.

It literally looks
like he's performing surgery.

He's very zen.

[Tom] My metal art...

I'm not about butterflies and sea turtles.
I want it to be intimidating.

My avatar is robotic.

For the moving element, I made the head
spin because I have the gift of gab,

so when I talk to someone,
I can make their head spin.

So I thought that'd be
a funny part to add to my avatar.

Usually, the first step I do
is make templates of everything.

When you look at the design of the body,

every piece that I have represents a piece
of poster board back at my shop.

I never cut anything
before I make a poster board template

because it's easier
to cut poster board than sheet metal.

The hardest part about prefab was knowing

every piece you put together,
you are not welding it.

I was a little nervous about thinking,

"Will it actually go together
when you start welding it together?"

Right now I'm keeping it simple
and going from the legs.

To assemble the feet and the shins,
I'm going to be TIG welding.

The best way to explain TIG welding to me,

is like a fine-tip marker
compared to, like, a crayon.

It's meant for, like,
smaller, controlled welds.

My biggest concern right now is just time.

[scoffs]

Is ten hours enough to put this together
if it took 40 to come up with it?

[buzzing]

What are some things you're looking at
that's sparking some interest?

Okay, I'm digging Frank's sculpture.

Frank is old school.
He's got a ton of experience.

He's not looking around.
He's not messing around.

He's doing it, man.

I was gonna actually pick Frank
even before I saw the sculpture,

I swear to God, just because
his outfit looked like a welder.

-[Stephanie laughs]
-[Jo Koy] Those khakis were banging.

I'm telling you, I saw them and I'm like,
"This guy right here is for real."

Well, I finally got the helmet done.

Obviously the head's gonna go,
the helmet's going on there.

I'm Frank. I'm 67 years old,
and I'm from Theodore, Alabama.

I used to have my own company,

which was steel fabrication.

I did that for 25 years.

My wife Teri and I,
we lost our son in an accident.

He was 15.

When we lost Blake, I was devastated.

But in the grieving process, I discovered
this artistic side I didn't know I had.

Metal art is what saved my life.
It gave me a reason to carry on.

When this challenge came about,
I thought about the phoenix.

The mythical creature
that builds a nest, sets itself on fire,

and then comes back,
rising from the ashes.

My avatar is coming out of an egg.
It's like being reborn.

The fire represents the fire of grief.

And then the resurrection,
the coming back.

So, I gotta get this egg,

and then all these puzzly pieces
creates the kind of cracked up egg.

They'll be all around this piece.

I wanted to do this
puzzly design on the egg,

which is kind of a signature of my art.

And so I freehand cut
all these puzzly pieces out.

When I get it tacked up,
it leaves quite a bit of welding to do.

[buzzing]

All right, Stephanie, David,
we're at the halfway point.

We're five hours in.

I'm gonna say this though, as far as
this challenge being an avatar?

-I'm seeing six out of seven avatars.
-[Stephanie] Yeah.

I'm looking at each piece,
going, "Yep, that's Lou."

-"Yep, that's Tom"
-[David] Yeah, totally.

"Yep that's Frank. That's Rae,
and that's definitely Ivan."

But what I'm not seeing? Leah.

I don't know what that is.

I don't see avatar.

If we're not able to grasp the concept
of her avatar, that's kind of an issue.

I'm making a flower monster.

It's tricky because I can't look at it
and tack it at the same time.

So I kind of have to guess.

Trying to do little tacks
so I can do minor adjustments, but...

they, more or less, have to be
sort of in the right spot for it to work.

I've chosen to create a pendulum.

The pendulum is a good
representation of different aspects of me,

that are often conflicting
with one another,

and I feel pulled in different directions.

I started
with the three foremost front petals,

and forging those pieces into a mouth.

Once the flowers are done,

I'll be able to move on
to the bigger composition in general.

But I... This is
the hardest part of this piece.

So if I get this together,
I'll be smooth sailing from there.

Typically, I like to spend
300 hours on a sculpture.

You know, I'm known for details.

That's gonna be a problem for me.

[buzzing]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Ivan] So once I've got
the structure put together,

The next thing is the movement.
If I can't get it to move, I'm out.

Obviously if he's going to be raising
and lowering his hand, using a hammer,

there's timing involved.

I make a CAM bank to actually make
different pieces move at different times

to get it to do what I need it to do.

What a CAM system is, it's the same idea
as what you have in your car.

It's mechanical timing.

You have lobes, like discs.
That lobe will spin around.

As it spins around, it'll move a lever,
open and close valves, like in an engine.

Or in this case, that lever will move
and make an arm swing a hammer,

or make a head raise or lower.

You got to be able
to have enough power to turn that

to produce what you need
with what you have. It's been fighting me.

So it got me a little nervous. [chuckles]

[Jo Koy]
One moving part is all you guys asked.

All right? Looks like Ivan's
gonna have multiple moving parts.

-[Stephanie] Hundred percent.
-[Jo Koy] Is it too much?

If he doesn't finish
those connection points very smooth,

it all takes
a little bit of material to get jammed.

-Then it's done.
-And there's so many joints in there.

If anything scratches,
or it's not fluid motion...

-[Jo Koy] Yeah.
-And it blocks, it's done.

That's nuts, man.

Oh, that was a pun, by the way.
That's nuts!

[upbeat music playing]

[buzzing]

[Seven] After Dave said,
"I'm disappointed in you,"

I blanked out for about an hour
'cause I was in my feels.

I also wanted to cry and go home
at that point.

But I'm just gonna throw it out
and create something new.

I made just a generic base
out of sheet metal and flat bar.

Wish I would've made it round
instead of square, but honestly...

I am literally forcing myself

to continue fabricating even though
I don't know where I want to go with it

because quitting is not an option.

[whirring]

[Tom] Next step now is building the arms.

It'll be kind of
a "what's up, bring it" kind of look.

So, he's a robot,
so he's got to look kind of intimidating.

I'm not intimidating,
but my avatar is gonna look intimidating.

So, yeah, I just got to a slow spinning.
It's like 5 RPMs a minute.

I look like I'm close, but the wheels
could fall off this wagon at any point.

To make my avatar move,
I decided to use a gear system.

And all it's doing is driving
a couple of Day of the Dead flowers

out in front of the skull.

I have four gears.

I went ahead and got them roughly moving,

but I go to turn one,
and I'm getting a lock.

I got the cold sweats.
Like all of this is gonna go badly.

I'm... I'm getting pretty nervous.

[Rae] I took the whole thing apart,
and put it all back together.

How?

By the grace of God.
But I did it! [scoffs]

I can't open it anymore. I don't know
what else to do to make it work.

I don't know what to do with this part.

Setback. Things don't line up anymore.

So when the wings go backwards,
not going backwards.

And when they come out,
it's shifted side to side.

That looks like trash.

Everything that can go wrong
is going wrong. I don't know what to do.

Oh, no.

[vibrant music playing]

One hour to go.

[buzzing]

[Tom] I got one hour left.
Now I'm just finishing my avatar.

Polishing out any of the weld,
trying to get the heat marks out.

[Seven] I'd be lying if I would say
everything is unicorns and rainbows.

My fist is my problem area at the moment.

I'm having an issue with hinging it right,

so it will sit and rest
the way that I want it.

So it's taking a little bit more time
than I want it to.

[Jo Koy] Thirty minutes left, you guys.

The clock is ticking, hurry up!

Honestly, I think
I'm the one struggling the most.

I have it moving,
it does what it's supposed to.

But I've had to spend
so much time on this bank of CAMs

that I'm running out of time to get it
to look like the full body of a human,

and less like a stick figure.

So I'm literally just
shearing strips of sheet metal

and bending them into place
to give a solid look and feel to it.

[clanging]

[clattering]

I'm pretty beaten down, and
all I can think about is all the flaws.

Five!

Four! Three!

Two!

One! Tools down!

Tools down!

All right, you guys, step away.
Put everything down.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Jo Koy] Welders.

We asked you to build an avatar
that best represents who you are.

We also asked for
at least one moving part.

We've got to see if your work is good
enough to keep you in this competition

because one of you is going home.

Lou, tell us about this
avatar you made right here.

[Lou] I'm a first-generation immigrant.
I'm from Mexico.

All I had to do
is tap into our rich culture of art.

So I went straight to Day of the Dead.

It represents who we are
as a people, as Latinos.

-[Stephanie] So you turn this right here?
-[Lou] Yeah.

So why didn't you just secure
this post piece to this main gear?

And have the head turn?
My first concern was weight.

-[David] How heavy is it?
-[Lou] It's 250 pounds.

[Stephanie]
I appreciate incorporating technology

into something so raw and rugged.

I know to younger generations,
it'll be inspiring to them.

Thank you.

-Leah, tell us about your avatar.
-[Leah] Sure.

So basically, each aspect,

be it the three buds,
or the two flower monsters, are sort of

a different aspect of my personality.

So I chose a pendulum
to display the conflict that I feel.

[David] Wow, the details are unreal.

The teeth are so

-beautifully crafted, beautifully made.
-[Leah] Thank you.

Though I am having trouble figuring out
how this is an avatar representing you.

You're telling me the pendulum is swinging
between two different sides of you,

when you have two flowers
that are virtually the same thing.

-Thank you, Leah.
-[David] Very good job.

Frank, tell us about this avatar.

I thought about my life story.

I've been married
41 years to my lovely wife.

And we had two children,
and we lost our son in an accident.

He was 15 years old.

When we lost Blake, grief did consume me.

Art saved my life.
It gave me a reason to go on.

I've got my armor on.

I'm just rising up, into this new world.

-The story shines through in your piece.
-It does. It really does.

It's beyond words, honestly.
Thank you, Frank.

Thank you.

Seven.
You ready to tell us about your avatar?

The bottom section represents
the roots of my ancestors.

Vertical bars represent oppression.

The fist itself is an act of resistance.

The palm opens up.

And inside here, I've got a little note

to myself, to remember to keep rising.

[David] You're seriously communicating
a lot through this piece.

But did you maybe think about
more expl*sive motion?

-More dynamic?
-[Seven] I honestly did.

And for me, this is motion.

[David] Okay. All right.

-Rae, tell us about your piece.
-[Rae] Hi.

The base symbolizes my past,
the root of everything I do.

It's see-through
'cause we're transparent as humans.

Up to some blooms, like,
life is okay right here, then we come up,

and this is the future.

These roses are absolutely delightful.

-Can I see you make them move?
-[Rae] Yes.

It's fixed on a hinge system,
so it folds in and folds out.

Now, on the hinges, is that on purpose?
That it's kind of...

-No.
-[David] Not fluid motion?

It should've sat back more.
It came together back,

on the back part, when it folds this way,
how I wanted it to, but I took it apart...

-Thank you very much.
-Thank you.

Ivan.

You asked me to make an avatar,
a representation of myself.

So I made myself building myself.

[Jo Koy] What?

-[Stephanie] Oh my God.
-[Jo Koy] Stop.

-That is awesome. That is cool.
-That is the raddest thing.

That is amazing.

I think something
that's blown all of us away here today

is the engineering
involved with this piece.

You also have a good aesthetic eye.

Thank you. I appreciate that. [chuckles]

-Very impressive.
-[Ivan] Thank you.

[Jo Koy] Tom?

You threw some glasses on a robot, bro.
It looks just like you.

[Tom] It's the obvious.

I'm a little dorky,
little nerdy. I like racing,

so everything is very obviously
mechanical and simplified.

The stance of the arms,
it's like "Life, bring it on."

That's where I got the stance from.

-The prep time you put in showed here.
-[David] Good job.

Thank you.

Welders, thank you so much.

Now it comes down to the judges,

and who they picked
that built the best avatar.

Metal artists, I want Tom, Ivan,
Seven, and Leah to step forward, please.

[Stephanie]
Two of you are at the top of the list,

and two of you are at the bottom.

Thomas, your work was
exceptionally well-fabricated.

It showed how much effort you put
into your preparation upon coming here.

Ivan's was very, very sculptural.

It had so many moving parts.
It just sucked me in.

I liked Tom's also, a lot.

But in the end, there can only be
one winner of today's challenge.

And that winner is...

[suspenseful music playing]

Ivan.

[uplifting music playing]

[Ivan] I'm a little shocked.
I spent a lot of time

trying to make it work.

And yeah, I really didn't think
I was gonna win this one.

Now here comes the hard part.

Whose piece puts them at the bottom?

One of you will be
leaving this competition immediately.

Leah, your piece,
though beautifully put together,

we weren't getting
the message of your avatar.

Seven, your piece,
lacking a little bit of tact

and execution on the fabrication.

But what a fantastic story,
and extremely powerful piece.

But at the end of the day,
it is a metal art competition.

And one of you has to go home.

And that artist is...

Seven.

-Thank you very much.
-Thank you.

Thank you for
that beautiful piece and beautiful story.

Unfortunately, you have
to gather your things and go home.

-Much love.
-Thank you.

[Seven] I am sad that I'm going to

not experience
the other six amazing humans.

But I am super grateful
for the experience.

All right, guys, the next challenge
is waiting for you in the workshop.

There's no rest for the weary.
Get out of here, go! Go! Go!

[upbeat music playing]