Custom Signs in Gladewater, TX

Handmade wooden signs for Gladewater — booth and storefront signage for the antique district, and family pieces for the house.

Signage in a town people come to on purpose

Almost nobody wanders into Gladewater. They come for the antique blocks, or for Gusher Days in April, the rodeo in June, the arts and crafts festival in September, the Christmas events in November, or the daffodil gardens outside town that bring visitors through February and March. Every one of those brings people who have never been down that street before.

A visitor who does not know the town reads signs. In a district full of dealers, the booth or shopfront that is clearly identified gets walked into and the one that is not gets walked past — and a printed panel on a period frontage always looks like what it is.

Made in a furniture shop, which is the point here

These are built as timber pieces — real frames, real boards, joints cut rather than stapled, finished the way a table gets finished. In a shop selling genuine old furniture that matters more than it would anywhere else: a sign that is obviously machine-made undercuts the stock underneath it. A painted board with depth and grain does not.

Signs as stock, not just as signage

Worth saying to dealers directly: handmade wooden signs sell. Family names, established dates, scripture, kitchen and laundry wording, house numbers. They are the sort of thing somebody picks up on the way out having come in for furniture, and they carry a better margin than most small stock.

We can make them in runs, to your wording or to a set you choose, and at a trade rate rather than a retail one. If you want to test whether they move in your booth before committing, start with a handful.

Coat racks and hooks

A close cousin of the sign work and one of the most-asked-for things in the shop. A stained board with cast hooks, cut to the length of wall you actually have, fixes a back door or a mudroom that never had anywhere to hang anything. They take lettering too, which makes them a sign and a coat rack at once — and they sell in a booth for the same reason the signs do.

Ordering

Send the wording, the rough size and any colors it has to sit alongside. A photograph of the wall, the booth or the shopfront helps far more than a description. You get a price before anything is cut. One sign is a perfectly normal order and so is a run of twenty.

Questions we get from Gladewater