1. He learned the art of bronze sand casting at this young age. 2. Wheels are produced in these alloys as permanent mold or sand castings . 3. Traditional techniques include lost-wax casting, plaster mold casting and sand casting . 4. Nivola's sand casting has been briefly described as a bas-relief sculpture in concrete. 5. Sand casting is relatively cheap and sufficiently refractory even for steel foundry use.6. The process is easily automated and more precise than sand casting . 7. The modern method is by sand casting and then machine lathing. 8. Sand casting requires less welding and repairing at the end of the process.9. The most common gear-cutting processes include hobbing, extruding, investment casting, or sand casting . 10. Gutenberg may have used sand casting to create molds for his mirrors, Needham said.