Casting Bronze, Aluminum, Brass or Stainless Steel is a manufacturing process by which the liquid metal is (usually) poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the
desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solid casting is then
ejected or broken out to complete the process. Casting may be used to
form hot liquid metals or various materials that cold set after mixing of components (such as epoxies, concrete, plaster and clay).
Casting is most often used for making complex shapes that would be
otherwise difficult or uneconomical to make by other methods.
Casting is a 6000 year old process. The oldest surviving casting is a copper frog from 3200 BC.
Diskey Sign Company offers a wide selection of Cast Plaques in various sizes, shapes and colors. The casting process generates two types of graphics - recessed and raised. A cast plaque is ideal for external applications as the graphics / letters cannot be removed and the metal will not break. Extreme weather temperatures both hot and cold will not adversly affect a cast metal plaque.
Below are examples of the different types of materials, borders, background textures, letter style types, rosettes, finishes and much more Diskey Sign Company can provide. Please click the image examples to enlarge.
Material
Standard Border
Background Texture
Patina Finishes
Oxidized Finishes
Portrait Options
Original Photo
We offer many options to honor or memorialize that special person. Send us the photo and choose from one of the three options shown here.
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Etched
The etching process allows you to forever replicate your photograph, line drawing or complex artwork.
This method utilizes a halftone dot pattern made from a 50-line screen. Halftone portraits resemble newspaper photographs, and have visible dot patters. The etched, recessed dots are black ink filled to contrast with the satin finished metal background. The best photographs for halftone etched portraits have high contrast tones with bright white areas, dense black areas and minimal grey tones. Photos that are monotone or have muted colors will produce poor halftone etchings. Halftone etchings are not available in aluminum.
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 Bas Relief
We start with a photograph. Although we can use any quality photograph, the better the image the better the modeling effort. Remember, the finished image will be an artists interpretation of this photograph. An image of this clay model is sent to you via email for your comments or approval. When approved, the clay model is used for the bronze casting proess. While the clay model is a monotone, the finished bronze casting contains highlights. The bas relief is mechanically attached to the plaque background. Overall height of 6" to 9" with a finished depth of 3/4" to 1". (7 week lead time.)
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Oval, Round & Rectangular Ceramic Inserts
Ceramic inserts use a standard-sized blank as its base. A photograph is scanned at high resolution and a digital transfer is produced and applied to the blank. A clear glaze is applied over this transfer, and the insert is fired in a kiln.
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