Lost Wax Casting — Historical Arts & Casting, Inc.

While many pieces made by HACI are large- to medium-scale and require sand molds for casting, there are some smaller, more complicated parts that we produce by another method–lost wax casting. 

For Historical Arts, the lost wax method is most usefully utilized when the parts in question are smaller and cannot be modified in terms of draft. We have used it to produce smaller hardware components, finials, and even detailed sculptural elements (stay tuned to our Instagram feed later on this year for some coverage of a couple beautiful bronze dragons that we are currently making at time of this writing).

The following images, along with their associated captions, are meant to provide an overview of the process–an introductory storyboard to the process, as we follow a small light fixture part through the stages of its production.