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The waxes are assembled to assure perfect alignments before being cut apart to facilitate casting in bronze.

Now with the clay speaking its message Sumo Bronze Art Foundry in San Gabriel,
clearly, the time comes to replicate it in CA prepares the waxes (see below) by
bronze. Only fifteen are to be cast. The encasing them in a refractory coating that
balance and tensions of the internal lines will remain after the wax inside is burnt

of this sculpture are so exact that each away, allowing the void inside to be filled
stage of the complicated casting procedure with molten bronze, hence the name,
must be handled with great care and skill the “lost wax” casting method.
so as to preserve the gains painstakingly
wrought in the clay. All the subsequent
processes, beginning with creating the
mold from the original clay, and through

the casting of a perfect wax replica for
each bronze-to-be, to encasing the waxes
in a refractory shell, the pouring of molten
bronze, to the finishing and applying of the
patina, require expert handling and a first-

class art bronze art.