Sentence examples for wax casting from inspiring English sources

Remove the model, being very careful to keep the mold intact, as any imperfections in your mold will result in a flawed wax casting.

The basic technique, known as "lost wax" casting, dates back to the beginnings of civilization.

And from Brancusi he absorbed direct carving, a sea change from the lost wax casting method by which sculpture had been produced for centuries.

Penone made the tree by casting a real tree: in the process of lost wax casting, the tree was chopped up, destroyed, to leave its trace in art.

Because he treasures the figure, his wife suggested some years ago that they make a bronze of it, even going so far as to make a wax casting of the original.

And, because the resin isn't rated for lost wax casting, the utility beyond prototyping is limited.

Before the invention of flexible molds (see below), piece molds were used for producing wax casts for metal casting by the lost-wax process.

Others were more enigmatic, such as his wax cast of Judy's hand, arm, shoulder, neck, jaw, and mouth, which he called "From Hand to Mouth".

There, the ubiquity of "photographs, drawings, wax casts, as well as staged re-­enactments" encouraged any enterprising patient to determine and reproduce the ideal hysterical profile.

A wax cast of the artist's back tied up and bound with string, it was considered by experts to be "a history-book piece".

Across the way, they could have seen a blood-red wax cast of Winston Churchill, slightly larger than life, that extended only from his feet to his chest.