Exhibit 5.1

             OPINION AND CONSENT OF LEBOEUF, LAMB, GREENE & MACRAE

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We are acting as counsel for Dynamic Materials Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the preparation and filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), of the Company's registration
statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") for the registration of
50,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.05 per share (the
"Stock"), to be issued and sold pursuant to the Company's Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (the "Plan").

     In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Registration
Statement, (iii) the Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and the Bylaws,
as amended, of the Company, as in effect on the date hereof, (iv) resolutions of
the Board of Directors of the Company, dated July 1, 2003, authorizing the
issuance of the Stock and (v) such other instruments, certificates, records and
documents, and such matters of law, as we have considered necessary or
appropriate for the purposes hereof. In such examination, we have assumed the
genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us
as originals, the conformity to the original documents of all documents
submitted to us as copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter
documents. As to any facts material to our opinion, we have, when relevant facts
were not independently established, relied upon the aforesaid Registration
Statement, resolutions, instruments, certificates, records and documents. We
have also assumed the regularity of all corporate procedures.

     Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations and qualifications
contained in this opinion, we are of the opinion that:

1.   The issuance of the Stock has been duly authorized by the Board of
     Directors of the Company.

2.   The Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable when the
     Stock shall have been issued, sold and delivered for the consideration
     contemplated in the Plan.

     We express no opinion with respect to any laws other than the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the applicable provisions of the
Delaware Constitution and the reported judicial decisions interpreting the
Delaware laws, and the federal laws of the United States.





     We hereby consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby concede that
we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7
of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

                                      Very truly yours,

                                      /s/ LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.

New York, New York
May 13, 2004