The lost wax or cire-perdue bronze casting process is a 3,000 year old technique used by ancient Chinese, Greek, and African civilizations. This casting process changed little when the industrial revolution brought bronze foundries to North America in the late 1800's. The ceramic shell mold process, illustrated here, was developed during the 1950's to provide finished precision parts for the aircraft industries. Today the lost wax process is used anywhere accurate dimensioning, fine detail, and little surface finishing are necessary.

Brad Morton first began casting in Birmingham at a small foundry he built at Sloss Furnaces in 1984. A few years later he moved the operation to his current studio where he works with a wide variety of metals.