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Custom Sculpture & Sign Co.

127 Wampler St.
Nickelsville, VA 24271
276-479-0388 - Sign Shop
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A beautiful sunny day spent cutting timbers for our timber frame home. Are these crazy beetle pictures bugging you yet? I know, that was a terrible play on words... How often do you get the chance to have some fun with a giant insect? I couldn’t help my self. Enjoy! www.sculpture-signs.com These critters are a challenge to outrun! www.sculpture-signs.com Open season for bucks. Beetle bucks that is. They’ll sneak up on you and you’ll never hear them. So you have to stay alert to spot them. Virginia let’s you bait them so that helps. Send pics of your trophy bucks if you get any! www.sculpture-signs.com #customwoodcarving #customwoodcarvings #customsculpture #customtreecarving #chainsawcarvingvirginia #chainsawcarvingnickelsville #chainsawcarvingscottcountyvirginia #stumpcarving #bearcarving #eaglecarving #chainsawcarvingtennessee #chainsawcarvingnorthcarolina #chainsawcarvingashville #customsculptureashville The mugs dried for two weeks. Then, a glaze was added and fired to cone 10. This is a homemade glaze. How do you like it? Fiberglass work and final epoxy gel coat is completed. Today I added the last step, color! Final pics are coming, stay tuned! www.sculpture-signs.com Hard coating an EPS foam beetle with Styrospray 1000 www.sculpture-signs.com Put the hard coat over the eps foam using the styrospray 1000. Next I will Fiberglass the pinchers and middle legs. www.sculpture-signs.com My son finished building our shop cabinets! Just a little trim and knobs left to do. How great to have all of my storage needs consolidated in one space. Next, he is building a rolling ladder to access the higher cabinets. We created four huge, sculptural bulletin boards a couple years ago for a nautical themed charter school in the Bronx, New York. We carved them out of HDU foam board with inset pockets for the corkboard portions to fit into and finished them all with specialty paint jobs. Check out my blog post about this job - https://wordpress.com/post/customwoodcarvings.com/8796 - for more!! #hdufoam #bulletinboard #corkboard #handcarved #makersgonnamake #modernmasters #schoolsign Finished carving and gluing in the pinchers. Next, I custom bent 3/8” all thread rod into the leg formations and drilled and glued the rod into the embedded 2 x 6s. Next, I took free form air epoxy putty and sculpted the leg details. Tomorrow I’ll finish everything up and apply the first coat of hard shell. www.sculpture-signs.com Finished the body. Tomorrow I’ll add the pinchers and legs. www.sculpture-signs.com My son, Miciah, #coppercreekcarver using “the grainer” tool over a one to one glaze to paint mix. We’re using this Faux wood grain technique on our new shop cabinets. That wood grain looks authentic! Doesn’t it?! Who’s the guy who figured this out? Check out my new blog post... https://customwoodcarvings.com/2020/02/03/carved-barrel-head-sign/ Making progress... www.sculpture-signs.com Starting a new sculpture in 3 lb. EPS foam. Any guesses on what it’s going to be? Hint - I’ve never made one of these, and it rhymes with something thin, small and sharp. www.sculpture-signs.com #customwoodcarving #customwoodcarvings #customsculpture #customtreecarving #chainsawcarvingvirginia #chainsawcarvingnickelsville #chainsawcarvingscottcountyvirginia #stumpcarving #bearcarving #eaglecarving #chainsawcarvingtennessee #chainsawcarvingnorthcarolina #chainsawcarvingashville #customsculptureashville , #foamcarving #foamsculptures Here’s a super fast version of a recent YouTube post showing the process of creating a 7 ft. hippo for the Toledo Zoo. www.sculpture-signs.com Having fun with clay! Have a great day! www.sculpture-signs.com Here’s the finished restored carving. An artist named Jim carved this 20 years ago. I sanded, filled cracks, primed and put 2 coats of marine paint. It should be set for another 10-15 years. It was my first time on the west coast since I was a boy. www.customwoodcarvings.com #customwoodcarving #customwoodcarvings #customsculpture #customtreecarving #chainsawcarvingvirginia #chainsawcarvingnickelsville #chainsawcarvingscottcountyvirginia #stumpcarving #bearcarving #eaglecarving #chainsawcarvingtennessee #chainsawcarvingnorthcarolina #chainsawcarvingashville #customsculptureashville It’s a good day to mill some logs! My son and I are plugging away this winter. We have 70 logs to mill for our timberframe home. www.customwoodcarvings.com
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Mahoney’s Walnut Oil Review

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. December 12, 2018 One Comment

Check out this video to see my favorite oil for smaller wood working projects…

Here’s the Amazon link if you want to check it out…

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  1. Rick Dotson December 26, 2018 at 2:29 am

    How many instructonain videos have you made. I have ordered one on the sitting bear but I will order more if you have them

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