Lost wax and sand casting for sculptors, designers and architects
You make the original. We make the casting.
A foundry with a working ceramic-shell room and a 1948 pedigree in iron and bronze is a rare thing in the Philippines. We cast your master in bronze, stainless steel or iron, cut the gates, blast it clean and hand it back. Design, chasing, patina and polish stay with you.
Lost wax, for detail
Portrait busts, reliefs, hands, medals, objects with undercuts. A silicone mold is taken from your master, a wax is pulled, invested in a ceramic shell, fired and poured. Surface detail down to a fingerprint. Pieces to about 20 kg each; larger works in sections.
Sand casting, for size
Plaques, bases, large reliefs, garden and architectural pieces to about 100 kg. Coarser surface than shell, right for bold forms and for iron.
Three metals
Bronze, the classic, warm and patinable. Stainless steel, unusual in art and hard to find a caster for: bright, weatherproof, no patina needed. Cast iron, dark and heavy, the material of markers and of the Philippine foundry tradition.
What we do, and what we leave to you
We do
- Mold-making from your master
- Wax or pattern, gating and risering
- Melting, chemistry on the spectrometer, pouring
- Shell removal, gate cutting, shot blast
- Dimensional check against your master
- Editions from a stored mold
You do, or your finisher does
- The design and the master
- Chasing, welding of sections, texture repair
- Patina, polish, paint, lacquer
- Bases, mounting, installation
- Copyright and edition control stay with you
If you want finishing, say so; we can introduce finishers we have worked with, under your direction.
Bring this and we can quote
- The master, or photos of it from four sides with a ruler: clay, wax, plaster, resin, 3D print, or a digital file
- Size and, if you know it, the weight in metal
- How many castings, now and later
- The metal, or ask us
- Surface expectation: as-cast with gates removed is our standard
- Your deadline, and who collects
Pricing follows the metal weight and the molding work. A quotation comes after we see the master or good photographs; a visit to the shell room is welcome by appointment.
Recent work
Scout Delgado
Four portrait busts in stainless steel, cast in September 2026 from the sculptor's master by ceramic shell, each about 16 kg. All four came out of one heat sound. They are shown here as cast, gates cut and shell removed; the finishing is the artist's.
The job came to us because nobody else nearby had the shell room and the furnace for it. That is the point of this page.
Questions we are asked
Will the mold damage my clay original?
A silicone mold is taken from the clay; the clay survives in most cases but is never guaranteed. A plaster or resin master is safer and lets us cast editions later.
How much does the casting shrink?
Bronze and stainless shrink roughly 1.5 to 2 percent on cooling; iron about 1 percent. We tell you the figure for your piece so a fit to a base or a frame is right.
Can you cast hollow?
Yes, with cores, for larger busts and figures. Wall thickness and core design are agreed on the master.
Who owns the mold?
You do. We store it labeled under your name for editions, or return it.