The fine art casting process is an intricate and delicate process that goes back centuries but has been improved by modern invention and technology. We cast using the lost wax-cire perdue-process. In abbreviated summary, the steps in the process are these:

• ORIGINAL:
  Fashioning the clay Maquette
• ENLARGEMENT:
  Enlargement-small to large
• MOLD:
  Rubber mold-positive to negative
• WAX:
  Wax impression-negative back to positive
  Wax chasing and dressing
  Wax gating
• SHELL:
  Investment mold
  Preheat
  Burnout
• METAL FABRICATION:
  Pour
  Divestment
  Cut-off
  Metal chasing and assembly
• PATINA:
  Patination

Original clay maquette

Final product with base