““This is an art process that’s over 300 years old; it’s known as the lost wax process,” says Gates. “Picture a very large solid tube of hard wax. The artist basically chisels out the art piece from the wax. All the images and the delineations you see are in that wax…when the artist has completed their work — that essentially comes in with a molten metal they spray over the wax…Before the wax can start melting and destroying the art piece, the molten metal is immediately cooled off with a misty spray of cold water. That’s a very old process and it’s still used today.”

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