Bronze Baby Feet and Hands
The beauty of real bronze is its durability. If a bronze cast is dropped on a solid floor, it won’t break, which means that big and little fingers alike can play with and explore the casts – bronze casts are certainly very tactile objects.
Our real bronze casts can be finished in traditional dark patina, medium patina or highly-polished and displayed on your choice of a slate base or cushion.
Price varies depending on the size of the cast and the cost of bronze at the time of casting.
- Please contact us for price details
Prices include:
- Home casting session if you are within our catchment areas. If you come to the workshop in Battersea there is a discount
- Moulds of your casts which act as an insurance as copies can be made from these should anything happen to your original casts.
- Your choice of a slate or cushion to display your casts on.
- Safe delivery of your casts.
Engraving is not included in the price but can be arranged from £90 per pair of casts
Taking the moulds is the same as for our resin casts (see how it works) but creating a bronze baby hand cast or baby foot cast requires a different specialist process:
- First, a perfect wax replica of the cast is made.
- A specialist foundry then uses the ‘lost wax method’ to cast the real bronze which involves pouring molten bronze into the wax mould.
- Finally, it takes a true expert to finish (or ‘chase’) the cast and bring out the detail in the required patination.
- The total process is highly skilled from start to finish, and can take up to 12 weeks to complete.
