The woven wax sculpture is now in the safe hands of the experts of Pangolin Editions down in Stroud, were they are working their magic turning the wax into bronze. I will be posting images as the process progresses, the first batch following this post are of the initial investment process were the wax is first sectioned with thin walls of metal. The metal walls will aid the sculpture being split down into sections just like breaking a Chocolate Orange! As the wax sculpture has been woven at full size and the weave is so intricate they will be using the vacuum chamber to draw the moulten bronze through the voids in the cast.
Once the metal walls are in place the wax is covered with a casting material to create the hard shell around the wax, this will go in the kiln and heat up to a high enough temperature that the wax will melt out of the cast.