Photo feature: Bangkok?s blowtorch-wielding Buddha makers

Sparks flying, a man blowtorches the Buddha's head until its neck glows red hot, allowing it to be soldered onto a standing life-sized brass body.Elsewhere in this large open-air factory, another worker shoves a fierce industrial-strength buffer onto the eyelids of a tipped-over giant Buddha, smoothing the brass so it glistens while the buffer's rotary engine whines.Amid the shrieking machines, reject Buddha heads and decapitated bodies lay jumbled on the ground in small piles, their metallic faces disfigured by accidents during the difficult statue making process.read more

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