art foundry

When a sculptor contacts us to cast a piece in bronze, one question comes up quite often: can it be done using sand casting? The reason is usually simple. Sand casting can be less expensive, so there is a natural tendency to assume that, whenever it can reduce the cost of the work, it must be the better option. In practice, however, it is not quite that simple. At Mão de Fogo, we work with both sand casting and lost-wax casting, and we do not consider one process to be bette