Neil Mansfield is a friend of Seven and was a coworker of ours back in the day when several of us worked at Merlin. He has since become a favorite teacher to many kids at a technical high school in the suburbs west of Boston, where he teaches welding, metal fabrication and blacksmithing. Every year Neil takes a group of very excited students on a field trip to Seven. The kids are not only excited to be out of school, they genuinely seem to enjoy spending time with us in the shop. They ask lots of questions: everything from how much a frame costs to how to get a job at Seven when they graduate. The highlights every year are our welding demo and Skunk, our resident bicycle chopper gang leader.