• Winged griffin or lion after Hecla Iron Works’ 1870s brownstone newel post

    July 26, 2020

    I cast a 2nd winged griffin, so I have a pair, needing to clean this one up, attach the wings prime and paint it.
    I’ll be making a mold of the base “rock” to-morrow.

    I have enough resin to cast one more.

    The first pair will be going on my front step, the 3rd cast will be in inventory for sale, these will be sold with an acid stained concrete base they attach to which will help keep them standing in the garden or indoors with a nice heavy base.

    Prices include shipping and the base, the wings will be attached with bolts like the original 1870s  iron ones were, but will be removed for shipping.

    https://www.urbansculptures.com/cart/product/winged-griffin/

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  • Winged griffin after Hecla iron works

    July 19, 2020

    I am pleased with how this turned out, they need a base of some kind and I havent been able to find just the right one, but that rock in the photo is just about right, so I may very well make a mold of it and cast it in acid stained concrete so these can be mounted to them and be securely standing upright. Cut stone is very expensive, about $150 each plus shipping, the landscaping blocks you see out there are all concrete and the wrong size and so forth, so it leaves making them myself.

    I will probably have these  winged griffins with a base for $375

    They are black resin, primed and painted gloss black, the wings attached with stainless steel machine screws, along with same for attaching to the base.

    They can be done without the wings too, most of the few originals left in NYC lack their wings- they were broken off.

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  • Winged griffin after Hecla iron works

    July 18, 2020

    The first black resin cast of the winged dragon is out of the mold, looks very good! after the seam lines get sanded down and it gets surface cleaning to remove any oily release agent, it can be primed with black primer and painted gloss black, but that will be after the wings are made and attached with stainless steel machine screws first.
    It took exactly 8 quarts.

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  • Winged dragon after Hecla iron works, about to cast.

    July 15, 2020

    With the mold now ready to use, I ordered the black resin, 4 gallons worth, if I’m lucky I might get 2 complete casts out of that, or I could be a quart or two short, either way it will be close.

    I don’t expect the resin to get here this week, most likely next Monday/Tuesday.

    More photos etc then, I will also have a better idea what time and materials it will take for each and I can calculate prices on these as well as get photos of a finished cast.

     

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