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A process for finally finishing a surface of a bronze statue that is then waxed with at least a single wax coating. In a practice of the invention, to a bronze surface that has been polished and preliminarily buffed, a low pressure grit material flow is directed against a section of the bronze surface as a final surface texturing step and, where a surface or surfaces adjacent to the section is to be painted, patinaed, or is to receive a like surface finish, a selected plastic material is used to coat the section of the bronze surface, which material is applied as a liquid and dries to a flexible surface that adheres to so as to essentially render the bronze surface imperious to contamination with paint, water, or the like. After application of paint, patina, or the like, the plastic material coating is stripped away by a painter/operator using a tool or tools, such as a pair of tweezers, to remove the coating. Whereafter the sculpture surface is waxed.
A process for finishing bronze statue where, to a bronze casting surface that has been polished to remove unwanted material, and after said bronze casting surface has been initially buffed, said process consists of;
(a) directing, to a portion of said bronze casting surface that is to be polished only, a flow of an abrasive material contained in a dry flow of air under a pressure of from 90 to 110 psi through a nozzle end that is maintained at a distance of from 50 to 100 millimeters above a portion of said bronze casting surface and wherein said nozzle directs a spray pattern onto said portion of said bronze casting surface that is of a diameter of from 75 to 100 millimeters, and where said abrasive material has a grain size of 25 to 50 microns;
(b) applying a liquid flexible plastic coating composition to the portion of said bronze casting surface that has been polished, and which is adjacent to an uncoated bronze casting surface which is to be painted or patinaed after said liquid flexible plastic coating composition has dried to form a flexible plastic coating;
(c) painting or patinaeing the uncoated bronze casting surface;
(d) after the paint or patinae has dried, removing said flexible plastic coating by an operator using a tool or tools to pull off said flexible plastic coating; and
(e) applying at least one coating of a sealant material over the entire bronze casting surface.
2. A process as recited in claim 1, wherein the flexible plastic coating composition is applied in a liquid state and dries to a water impervious flexible coating; and the sealant material is a wax.
3. A process as recited in claim 2, wherein the liquid flexible plastic coating composition is coated over the bronze polished surface to a thickness of from 0.2 to 0.5 millimeters and is allowed to dry in air to a flexible water impervious flexible plastic coating.
4. A process as recited in claim 1, wherein a pair of tweezers are used to peel the flexible plastic coating, in stripes, off of the polished bronze statue surface.
