Lost-Wax Bronze Casting Process
The lost-wax bronze casting process is used to create our beautiful bronze sculpted art.
Creating these works of art is definitely a labour intensive process, but the results speak for them selves.
The list below is a brief outline of the steps involved, to achieve a highly detailed quality finished product, such as this NZ Kakapo.
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- Make a sculpture
- Make a rubber mould
- Cast wax
- Tidy wax
- Add core pins and core
- Sprue and vent wax
- Build ceramic shell around wax
- Dry shell
- Burn out wax
- Dry core
- Preheat ceramic shell
- Melt and pour bronze
- Remove shell
- Sand blast
- Cut sprues and vents
- Remove core and pins
- Weld holes
- Fettle bronze (Finish)
- Colour and seal
- One finished bronze
Once our bronze item is completed, we then repeat the process all over again. Take a look at our gallery of bronze art made using the same or similar techniques.