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American Bronze Foundry offers custom and traditional bronze plaques.

Offering unique as well as traditional bronze plaques including bass/portrait reliefs of any shape and size. Each bronze plaque is custom manufactured to your specifications. Plaques are cast in bronze. We offer various borders, backgrounds, and mounting methods. Any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Background Textures:
Most of our Cast Bronze Plaques are finished with a Texture on the surface of the metal unless specified. You may choose from: Leatherette, Pebble or smooth (which is no-background)

Borders:
You may choose the type of border you would like. The most common border is: Single line border. Although, you can choose from: Double border, bevel border or to have NO-Border at all.

Color:
Each plaque is handed PATINA (color) and may vary. You can choose from: Architectural Brown, Hand Rubbed Black Brown, Black. Any other color, please get in contact with us to assist you.

Mounting Methods:
Below is the description of each mounting method we offer. Also, the most common mounting method is: Boss and Stud. Although, you may choose from the following:

• Boss and Stud:
  Bosses (extra pads) are cast onto the back of the plaque. These are drilled and tapped to accept a threaded stud. Flat-backed plates (generally, smaller sizes) are drilled & tapped for studs without bosses on the back.
• Toggle Bolts:
  Holes are drilled through the face of the plaque for toggle bolts. They are threaded machine screws 4″ to 6″ long with spring-loaded butterflies that fold up and pass though holes in the wall. Rosettes are optional.
• Machine Screws and Expansion Sleeves:
  Holes are drilled through the face of the plaque for machine screws. Each metal expansion sleeve (or lead anchor) has a threaded interior to house a machine screw.The lead anchor will expand when a screw is inserted and tightened. Rosettes are optional.
• Wood Screws:
  Holes are drilled through the plaque and countersunk to accept a flat head wood screw. Larger sized wood screws, #14 or #16, have the heads drilled and tapped to accept a rosette cover.
• Invisible Frame: (optional)
  Angle clips fasten to plaque with machine screw and then toggle bolts, machine screws, or wood screws for wall mounting.

In addition to our extensive bronze casting and fabrication services, American Bronze Foundry maintains a fine art gallery in-house at 1650 E. Lake Mary Blvd. Sanford, FL (by the international airport of Sanford) for the general public. You may schedule a free tour, not only to our Fine Art bronze gallery but to the entire foundry. You’ll get to know the entire process on how a bronze sculpture in made.

You’ll learn the bronze art casting process:

• Step 1: The Art Work
• Step 2: Molds
• Step 3: Lost Wax Method and Casting
• Step 4: Wax Chasing
• Step 5: Spruing and Gating
• Step 6: Ceramic Shell
• Step 7: Metal Casting
• Step 8: Devesting
• Step 9: Welding
• Step 10: Metal Chasing
• Step 11: Glass Beading
• Step 12: Patination
• Step 13: Crating & Shipping
• Step 14: Delivery and Installation

You are welcome to come and enjoy the bronze gallery and the foundry tour. Also, we invite you to visit our bronze casting foundry website at: www.americanbronze.com

American Bronze Foundry is a proud advocate of keeping art programs in public schools.

From cave drawings to urban graffiti, humans have expressed themselves through imagery. Artistic endeavors are the first attempts at human communication outside of speech.

Art programs do far more than teaching children how to draw, paint, or play an instrument. Art programs teach students the underlying skills for such undertakings as sewing, map making, mathematical comprehension, creative writing, and more. Art programs aid students in understanding human anatomy, architecture, and social dynamics. These art programs also help develop crucial cognitive skills such as spatial relevance, perspective, and is also an outlet for expression of emotion, feelings about themselves and others. Cultural identification and geographical placement are more easily understood through art, especially at young ages.

The reason that practicing of artistic endeavors makes students smarter is not because they specifically learn to draw a house or sculpt a pot. The reason is that art teaches humans how to think and draw relations between themselves and the world around them.

We would like to encourage parents, teachers, and students to schedule a tour of our foundry to see first hand, the process of creating a bronze statue. We also encourage all to speak up about the importance of art in schools and ask school administrators, county commissioners, and state and federal legislatives to allow for art program budgets in public schools.

A Junkanoo delight bronze sculpture
Arms outstretched in reverie, Nicole Sweeting’s Junkanoo dancers stand in frozen rush at the Lynden Pindling International Airport. The artist has chosen for the dance a man and a woman, each bedecked in layers of costumes that surprise viewers with color. After all, the figures, both 8 and 9ft. tall, are cast in bronze.
Read more about: The Junkanoo Dancers in Bahamas International Airport

Once again, thank you for visiting our blog!
American Bronze Foundry

In American Bronze Fine Art Foundry the main purpose is to deliver the same Beautiful Sculpture that artist brings to us in bronze. You may visit our bronze fine art gallery and enjoy the art work, details, workmanship and the love we put in the process of transforming the sculpture in clay into a beautiful bronze sculpture.

Welcome to visit American Bronze Foundry.