This Is How Vietnam Welders Transform Trash into Beast, Cyclo

Welders from Vietnam have unlashed their creativity to turn industrial scraps into elaborate welding arts. This is how they rock it!

Workers are fully equipped with tools for creating innovative welding arts.

Special welding tools are used when it comes to small welds that require high accuracy.

Industrial scraps like hoses, spark plugs, motorcycle plugs, etc. are collected from garages and scrap buyers. They are then cleaned, grinded and polished before being assembled and fabricated.

When all needed are in good shape, it’s welders’ turn to transform the scraps into beautiful arts. They are really artists when creating original, splendid items using their creativity, great care and nicety of detail.

It often takes 3-5 years for a welder to become proficient in welding small details. And it takes lots of steps to create an art work. 

To make a motorbike, workers need create lots of parts from scraps. The scraps are classified in ways that suit to each part of the vehicle. For example, the engine is made of 6 spark plugs; scrap bearings are used to make wheels; gas tanks are created from water valves. Also, iron bars are bent into appropriate shapes. 

The welded parts are then color plated and polished for finished products like these. They are well loved for their uniqueness and creativity.

Welding arts created by Vietnam welders

Cyclo welding art. The cyclo is a 3-wheel bicycle taxi appearing in Vietnam during the French colonial period following a failed attempt to introduce rickshaws.

The above photos are taken from a workshop in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. And full credit for content is given to Vietnam Manpower Service and Trading Company – No.1 leading welding manpower provider trusted since 2000.

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Welding art projects: It’s never too late to give Christmas gifts!

Handmade Christmas gifts are just super fantastic, as you get the opportunity to give your beloved ones things made out of your hard work and creativity. Below are welding art projects for your Christmas gifting. These gifts are sure to be cherished and appreciated for years to come. 

Christmas finally comes. Have you given gifts to your loved ones? Lots of you may already do it. But for someone who for some reason gives late gifts, these are nice welding art projects from versatile, found materials for Christmas gifting. It is never too late to send a gift, indeed. And just make it heart-felt. 

And now, Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year!

Bike chain keychain welding project

Welded key chain in heart shape

Bike chains are a versatile material that can be made into numerous useful, attractive gifts. You can shape them into a key chain in the shape of heart, monogram letter, etc. Be sure to create a hook to attach this key chain portion to, which can be easily and inexpensively found at any craft store. 

 Washer sculpture welding project

Welded paperweight

Washers are another found material with which you can weld just about any shape or sculpture. Keep your recipient in mind, and create a small figure using bolts, nails and washers that will make a nice desk art or useful paper weight. Attach it to a flat, strong sheet of metal to ensure it stays stable.

Silverware art welding projects

Fork salt and pepper shakers holder 

Silverware is a versatile material. It can be fabricated into beautiful, practical pieces for your Christmas gifting. Forks and knives, spoons etc. can be welded into just about anything. To create a surprising gift idea, just bend and weld forks to make an original iPhone, business card holder, fork salt and pepper shakers holder, etc. that definitely makes the recipient’s day. 

Nail dandelion welding project

Welded flowers from nails

Rusted, scrap nails can be turned into chic artwork like flowers, etc. Welded flowers that never die can be showcased from the garden to coffee table, and everywhere in between. Just connect the nails at the tips, and either attach to a metal rod that you can stick in the ground or leave rusted and raw. They can be left rustic or painted with bright enamel colors. 

Don’t hesitate to share your welding project ideas for this winter in the comment box below. Again, Happy Holidays from VMST (welder staffing company from Vietnam)!

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Admire These 5 Welding Wonders of the Modern World

The welding trade has helped countless industries thrive, even made the impossible possible. Let’s take a tour of some of the world’s most famous welding wonders to admire them, learn more about huge impacts of welding on the world.

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Anyone in the welding industry has reason to brag about their professions because the big world has been made possible thanks to welding – one of the most essential trades. For thousands of years, unlimited industries have counted on advances in the welding field. Let’s take a tour of some of the world’s most famous welding wonders to admire them, to be more proud of your job, to boost the morale of your co-workers, your employees, and of course to enhance your knowledge about this amazing field. 

1. Trans-Alaska Pipeline

The Trans-Alaska pipelines are commonly known as one of the world’s historic welding projects. Thousands of welders braved the Alaska’s wilderness terrain and cruel weather for 3 years to weld the pipeline that is 49 inches in diameter. Since its completion, over seventeen billion oil barrels have flowed from the Prudhoe Bay oil field in North Alaska to Valdez Bay. 

2. The Vertical Assembly Center

For over 50 years, NASA has heavily relied on the welding trade to make the impossible possible. Debuting in 12th September, 2014, the Vertical Assembly Center became the globe’s largest welding tool. It is used to bring together the Space Launch System – the largest and most powerful rocket ever designed by mankind. It will help take humans not just to the moon but to other destinations like Mars and asteroids.

3. Cloud Gate

Standing 33 feet high and 66 feet long, Cloud Gates has been praised as one of Chicago’s most iconic structures. Because it takes after the tiny legumes, people often call it ‘the bean’. This sculpture was designed by Anish Kapoor - a British artist, but it was brought to life thanks to the diligent work of over 100 metal fabricators, technicians, engineers and welders. The designer was inspired by liquid mercury when coming up with the original structure. This reasoned why most of the work went on inside the structure that was created by a smooth series of polished, steel plates. Some of the largest plates weighted up to 1,500 pounds. For the perfect appearance, the curved plates were flux-core stitch-welded to the rib –system, a task that utilized a mammoth amount of welding supplies and the hard work of welding team.  

4. Disney’s Spaceship Earth

 “Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time. And for a 

brief moment, we have been among its many passengers.” That was the opening line for the almost 32-year-old attraction at Disney’s Epcot Center – Spaceship Earth. It stands as one of most iconic structures ever built by Disney Imagineering. The main purpose of this Spaceship Earth was to ‘bring the world together through technology’, and that goal was certainly accomplished throughout the construction process. To create the structure, welding was a key task, most of which was implemented off site using industrial tools.  That way helped improve quality control and provide better working conditions. 

5. Space Shuttle External Tank

The Space Shuttle, for years, stood as the beacon of U.S spaceflight. Between 1981 and 2011, as many as 135 missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center (Florida). Thanks to the Space Shuttle, a number of satellites and interplanetary probes were launched (inclusive of the Hubble Space Telescope), significant science experiments were carried out in orbit, and the International Space Station was developed. All of this was made possible thanks to welding trade that brought the Shuttle external tank into life. The external tank was designed by Martin Marietta Corporation (Maryland, U.S), and manufactured and assembled by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (Colorado, U.S) at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (New Orleans, Louisian). It was the largest and heaviest part of the Space Shuttle. The original tank built until 1983 weighted around 76,000 pounds. The weight of the tank was reduced with the construction of Lightweight Tank. It trimmed around 10,000 pounds from the tank preceding it. New welding processes made the Lightweight Tank production more cost efficient. In 1984, the Marshall Spaceflight Center used Variable Polarity Plasma Arc welding as the method of the tank construction. After years of research, Reynolds Aluminum, Lockheed Martin and the labs at Marshall Space Flight Center were able to develop a new alloy called Aluminum Lithium Al-Li 2195 – which lowered the weight of the External Tank by another 7,500 pounds. While repair welds became harder to make and production costs increased on the tank, NASA started researching alternative welding techniques. Eventually, project managers chose the friction stir process that created a stronger joint than the fusion arc welding employed in the earlier Lightweight Tank. 

Can you think of any more iconic machines or structures that have been made possible by welding? We - VMST, would love to hear from you in the comments below. 

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There will be the second welded Singing Ringing Tree in the world

There are only two Singing Ringing Trees that exist in the world. One is Burnley's Singing Ringing Tree. The second will be in Austin, Texas, U.S.

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This will be the first Ringing Singing Tree in the Western Hemisphere. Comprised of cascading pipes, this one-of-a-kind and historic art sculpture allows the wind to create such haunting and beautiful melodies.

The finished one will be installed in Austin, Texas within 6 months of its construction starting date in September 2015. Houston based JK Welding – Texas’s premier welding and metal fabricator has been tasked with building this strange, utterly amazing musical sculpture.  “We are thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking art project. It is not every day we get a chance to be part of history. The staff at JK Welding considers it a great honor to contribute its expertise to Austin’s public space,” said John King of JK Welding.

This Ringing Singing Tree is projected to stand about 17 feet tall and weighs 20 tons, being comprised of 22 levels of precision piping. This is a wind-powered musical sculpture resembling a tree set. It is strongly influenced by 2 like-designed arts in Britain and Saudi Arabia but designed by Royal Institute of British architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu. Its pipes of galvanized steel are welded together in concentric circles mimicking a tree bent because it is blown by the wind. When the wind whispers through those pipes, a melodious and haunting hum covering some octaves will usher out. Every time a guest rests underneath this incredible and inspiring music-based sculpture, they will get the chance to enjoy a different song.

You can enjoy one song Burnley's Ringing Singing Tree sings. (Alert: While some say it is beautiful, some think it sounds like the moaning of poor wandering souls in the depths of hell. Listen to it yourself and share your feeling).

King explains that steel pipes used to construct Austin's Singing Ringing Tree are fabricated from aesthetical qualities and toning. Particular narrow slits are added on the underside of the expertly placed pipes to create the desired sound.

Burnley's Singing Ringing Tree (England) has been recognized as one of globally friendly landmarks in the 21st century.  JK Welding hopes Austin’s sculpture will place the same impact on the Texan landscape.

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Original Welding Art by a Very Young Welder from Chicago

What unique and beautiful work! This welder must create those welding arts with his whole heart.

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A Father Dedicates Whole Year to Welding Astonishingly Giant Transformer for His Son

The giant transformer this guy welded with clever hand, steadfast mind and especially sweetest heart may have made him the world’s coolest father.

A Chinese father may have been titled Father of the Year after realizing his beloved son’s wish – welding a huge Transformer statue.

Wang Liansheng – a shipping welder from Suqian, Eastern Chian, kicked off making the 16-foot Bumblebee model for his dear son after seeing this Hollywood blockbuster, as reported by People’s Daily Online. This sincere gift for his son has now made this man famous when locals have flocked to admire the construction.

An impressive welding art starts from a promise

Wang Liansheng with his enormous Transformer

He revealed that he began building this Transformer in August 2014, after he watched the film with his son. As his son wanted a Transformer, Wang bought him a toy model. But it wasn’t enough for the little one who wanted a bigger robot. He recalled telling his son: “Daddy can’t afford a big model. How about I made you one?” 

Then, to keep this promise, Wang started collecting scrap car parts from a junk yard to make this model with his brother’s help.

He used scrap car parts for construction.

The process is far from easy

Working as a shipyard welder for over a decade, Wang obtained all the proper skills though, it wasn’t plain sailing.

After making the frame and fitting initial parts, he didn’t know how to go on. Wang revealed: “I had to search for pictures on the internet, and tried to figure things out step by step.”

He had to start again on some occasions, because the parts did not fit together as Wang had initially imagined.

He spent one year on the project and figured out things along the way.

A whole year is such a long time to implement a project though, he didn’t mind. He told that because the shipping business hadn’t been very good from the beginning of last year, he had had less work. That’s why he had had much time to work on that project. “We also have lots of space in our yard, which makes it possible”, he added.

Dedication finally pays

A year later, he finally successfully finished welding this life-size model. He asked a painter to apply the signature yellow paint to create Bumblebee. 

The final statue is astonishingly giant.

This Bumblebee was about 16 feet high and 10 feet wide and astonishingly 3 tons heavy. 

Make it a business

Wang is now planning to make a huge Optimus Prime, and has already built the frame.

Whilst the first Transformer is dedicated to his son, Wang expects the second to become a business. Wang optimistically revealed that he was thinking about the future; if that became big in the future, he could afford for welder hiring.

Wang is planning to construct a giant Optimus Prime, and he has already built the frame. He hopes to make this a business in the future.

Wang turns out not to be the only person…

He isn’t the only one to DIY an enormous Bumblebee from scrap parts. A Chinese artist made a yellow Transformer of 6.5 meter tall from 3 junked cars in 2012. Also, a welder from center China built one from scrap car and motorbike parts in 2011.

A giant Bumblebee was seen in Xiamen, Southeast China's Fujian Province, September 26th, 2012. It is 6.5 meters high from 3 scrapped cars.

Welder Xiong Wei in center China made a Bumblebee model from waste car and motorbike parts in 12 days. It is 2.7 meters high.

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