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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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Framed out the front porch today!
Here are some pictures of our exterior wall application. We used a superior timberframe insulation product called hempcrete. It combines industrial hemp chips with a lime binder and water to create an unbroken thermal mass around the whole house that is 9” thick, breathable, fireproof, R19 insulation value, mold resistant, rodent resistant , sound dampening and more! Please check out Cameron at #americhanvre for more info on this amazing building insulation. Thanks for looking!
Red oak stump carving at a residence near Logan Ohio. The base texture was created with a #manpatools 3” round multicutter. The finish is #benjaminmoore Arborcoat Natural 326-10 oil wood preservative. I made a crack filling video on this carving that demonstrates a new, fast, permanent technique. Stay tuned! Thanks for looking!
Day 3, almost ready for the oil wood preservative. Just a few minor details. I should have finish pics tomorrow. Thanks for looking.
Day 2 on a red oak frog near Landon Ohio
Carving a red oak stump on site near Logan Ohio. Look at how steep the incline is around this stump! Feels good to be carving wood again. I have to say out of all the materials I experiment with, carving wood is still my favorite. Along with clay, clay sculpture is so enjoyable too.
Here are some pics of our timberframe house raising and roof build. I’m so grateful for the many friends who came to help.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on our timberframe home project. We ordered nearly 80 locally harvested poplar logs and milled them to size with a wood Mizer. Next, we laid out all the mortise and tenon joinery and used chisels, a large saw and a chain mortiser to cut out the joints. Finally, we laid out all the timbers after a light sanding and oiled them in preparation for our house raising!! Stay tuned for more pics!!
I promise this will be the last post of this piece! I’m sorry!
This 8 ft. paisley bear is carved out of a giant block of 3 lb. density EPS foam, covered with 3/4” thick layer of epoxy putty ( free form air), then relief carved with Dremels and saburr tooth bits and painted with Modern Masters bronze paint. Next, some folks in Ohio will be mounting it on a metal base and shipping it to a restaurant in Miami. Thanks for looking!
Painting the bronze finish…
I put a base coat of dark brown. Then a dark bronze glaze over the recessed areas, then a brighter bronze for the raised areas. Here you can see the different painting layers.
I had to speed up the video a little to be under a minute. That’s why my voice sounds so rushed. No, I don’t usually talk that fast!
Another carved sign in HDU foam. A local sign shop is hiring us to carve all of his dimensional signs. Get in touch if you want a carved sign.
Still carving paisleys if you can believe it! Almost finished with the carving stage. I’m excited to start applying the bronze paint.
If any of you are looking to get a dog, check out my friend Amy’s Doradoodles. They are amazing dogs.
We are using a sabburr tooth flame burr in our Dremels to carve a paisley relief into Free Form Air Epoxy from smooth-on. Thanks for looking!
Here are some recent dimensional sign projects we have completed. We use a 4x8 CNC router to help us with sign projects.
Finally finished drawing the paisley design on this bear. Now Miciah and I are plowing into this relief work and are really enjoying it. We’re using tear drop sabbur tooth bits and it’s like butter on this free form air epoxy. Lots of fun! Stay tuned!
How many hours have I been drawing on this bear!!!???
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