Our Founder

In 1962, our founder, Gerald Bassett Sr., struck out on his own as an independent master pattern maker, establishing the G.M. Bassett Pattern Company. This photograph captures him hand-crafting a mahogany crankshaft casting pattern. This wooden master copy serves as the scaled blueprint to cast the durable pattern equipment, which is ultimately used to shape green sand into the disposable molds used for pouring molten metal.