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Custom Sculpture & Sign Co.

127 Wampler St.
Nickelsville, VA 24271
276-479-0388 - Sign Shop
Hours are not fixed. Please call before you visit the shop.

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16 ft. spruce stump carved in Lindley Park in Bozeman Montana. A team effort with my nephew Josiah Macica at #pineridgecarvings
Starting this 16 footer in Bozeman, Montana. Stay tuned…
Wait for it!!! I am spraying an activator onto a special iron paint. Within minutes, actual rust begins to form all over the surface of this epoxy resin sculpture making it look like a weathered, cast iron sculpture. Thanks for looking!!
This is half of a mold I made of a life-size bulldog. I will use the mold to make bulldog casts to sell. They will be cast in a weatherproof material similar to plaster, and then painted. Stay tuned for more on this project. Thanks for looking.
Working on a life-size elk sculpture with my son. This will be molded and cast as a cold cast bronze. Thanks for looking!
A pair of custom, replica table legs for a customer in New Hampshire. Thanks for looking!
Cuddly cubs!!
Making a complicated 3 part mold of this life-size bulldog… Stay tuned…
All kinds of bears around here…
Working on two climbing cubs, to be attached to a customer's tree stump in Syracuse, NY.
This life-size bulldog is carved out of 8 lb. density foam
Carving away on a bulldog face. Loving my #saburrtooth bits for carving this 8 lb. hdu foam.
A new venture. Some of you may know I’ve been experimenting with foam and resin sculptures for a few years. I have been using 3 lb. EPS foam for most projects. But, I have noticed if the sun is very strong, it can cause the foam to heat up and move slightly, or possibly shrink if extremely hot. This can leave small cavities underneath the epoxy shell. Or it can cause the epoxy to crack if the foam expands. So, I am trying out a new type of foam that should be much more stable. This is an 8 lb. density closed cell foam that comes in two liquid parts that you mix together and pour into a form. It expands 8 times its size within minutes. You have 45 seconds to mix. I simply made a form out of corrugated plastic sheeting from Home Depot and duct taped the outer joints of the form. I lined the inside with 3 mil plastic sheeting because the foam won’t stick to it. It took 3 gallons to fill a form for a life size sitting bulldog. That’s $40 a gallon. You essentially end up with a giant, custom solid block of 8 lb. HDU foam! This stuff is dense and carves like wood with no grain. You can order the foam if you google - ILL Street Composites. It holds detail and sands so easily, but wear a mask. Foam is not something you want to breathe! Work in an enclosed room to make clean up simple. Stay tuned for more progress on this project.
Making progress on these table leg replicas.
Working on a pair of replica table legs carved in white pine. She inherited plaster table legs from her Grandmother, but they are cracking. So, this way she can preserve the leg design and use them far into the future and pass them onto her grandchildren! The design is a fun, graceful wave form. It’s going to be a lot of fun to carve. Stay tuned!
This is a finished 7 ft. mailbox bear designed to be holding a mailbox. This is headed to central Virginia. A cub in a stump is getting cleaned up for a customer in Florida near Orlando. Thanks for looking and sharing!
7 ft. tall Momma bear and cub, mailbox holder for a customer in central Virginia. Next, the black bear colors get added to finish it off. Thanks for looking!
Please come and join us Friday evening and Saturday. We will have wood fired pizza Friday evening. Saturday we will have live craft demonstrations, make your own crafts for kids, live gospel music at 1 pm after the parade, great food and fellowship until evening. See you soon!
Carving some marina pilings in Old Saybrook, CT.
I recently restored this pine horse bench for a dear customer. I put new bases on them, a new muzzle on one horse, new maple slabs, sanded, filled cracks and oiled. These are 10 years old!
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Custom Bear Cub Signs

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. August 26, 2020

We are creating these adorable weatherproof resin cast bear cubs that can hold a sign saying anything you want. Just …

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Custom Silhouette Gate Sign

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. July 21, 2020

This custom silhouette sign was for a client based out of a small town in Southwest Virginia. He raises Wirehaired …

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Custom Cherry Elephant for Private Library

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. July 10, 2020

This client, from Minnesota, contacted me about creating a custom elephant sculpture for the new cherry-paneled library he was building …

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Red Tailed Hawk

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. June 20, 2020

A client in Connecticut contacted me about turning a large ash tree in his front yard into a landing red …

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HDU Foam Carved Cute Cub

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. June 13, 2020

Our customer contacted us about making a 3′ tall climbing cub to be mounted on a tree in their yard. …

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Stump Carved Flying Hummingbird

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. June 6, 2020

A local client had me carve a hummingbird on location at her home in Tennessee.          Thanks …

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Life Size Baseball Player – 1930’s Walter Johnson

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 30, 2020

The city of Rockville, Maryland contacted me earlier this year about making a life size sculpture of Walter Johnson, a …

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In the news…

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 27, 2020

It’s nice when you are carving onsite somewhere and the local media stops by with a camera. This was a …

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Custom Corgi Fountain – Concrete and Bronze Cold Cast!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 22, 2020

An outdoor living spaces contractor-landscaper in Texas got in touch with us about making a sculpture for a client’s water …

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4 Foot Tall Golden Anchor

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 14, 2020

Our customer asked us to create a gold leafed anchor to hang as a sign on their house. We decided …

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Giant Stag Beetle – 7 Feet Long!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 1, 2020

A taxidermy/insect themed store in Phoenix contacted us to make an enormous, seven foot long stag beetle! Quite a unique …

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Life Size Sycamore Goat and Pig

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. May 1, 2020

Our client contacted us about creating a life size Kunekune pig with a goat playfully perched on his back. It …

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Sycamore Playful Otter Carving

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. March 31, 2020

I carved an otter for a client in Texas this last November. I love otters and this piece is one …

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Rusted Anchor & Ship’s Wheel Sign – Over 8′ Tall!!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. March 20, 2020

A nautical themed charter school in the Bronx, New York, asked us to create this huge, rusty, patinaed, weathered wood …

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Four Huge Sculptural Bulletin Boards!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. February 7, 2020

A repeat customer (a nautical themed charter school in the Bronx, New York) commissioned us a few years ago to …

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Carved Barrel Head Sign

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. February 3, 2020

We’ve really enjoyed working with the Olde Mecklenburg Brewery in Charlotte, NC on several previous jobs. This last winter they …

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My kiln drying experiment worked!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. January 27, 2020

Check it out!

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7 ft. Hippo Sculpture for the Toledo Zoo!

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. January 23, 2020

The Penny Machine Company (http://pennybiz.com/) ordered this custom hippo sculpture to surround their penny machine at the Toledo Zoo. It …

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Perched Eagle

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. December 30, 2019

This was a commission by the Georgia Forestry Association as a memorial. It was carved out of seasoned poplar wood. …

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Contact info change

Custom Sculpture & Sign Co. November 20, 2019

Just letting everyone know that my cell phone number 860-876-7529, which I’ve used for the last few years will no …

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