The Sawmill Shop  

Welcome to the Sawmill Shoppe where we create custom carved bowls, wood signs & boxes, and hand made wood furniture & gifts perfect for your home or business.  We can create house warming, wedding, or special occasion gifts.  All of our wood work & art is made from trees found in Vance County,NC.  They are hand chiseled in select woods (pine, oak, cedar, maple) and are finished with custom color lettering including, black, dark green, leaf (gold, silver copper).  Our graphic images can be painted or left as the natural wood color.

    We are always Under Construction at the Log Cabin !

                          
      Need a custom sign?  Complete our e-request form below and we will contact you.

Signs for the home
Need a unique idea for a wedding gift or housewarming party? What is more thoughtful than a personalized crafted wood house sign with a newly married couple's name or for the new home owner add a unique touch by giving your home a name or a decorative house number.

Signs for the RV or campsite
For the spirited people in your life who have decided to take “life on the road”, our RV and camper signs add a touch of home wherever they venture. These signs make great unique gifts.

Signs for a man-cave, rec-room, dorm, boat dock, or special occasion. 
Make a statement or personalize any room with a custom sign. If you can dream it, we can create it!
Wish someone a special birthday, anniversary, birth of a baby, wedding or any other event with a sign.

Signs for the business
At the Saw Mill, we can create the perfect sign for your business, whether you need a small office sign or business complex we can help you.               

SAMPLE Signs   

Memorial & Rememberance Signs

                     

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Carved Bowls - made from a Bradford Pear Tree
   
      

                                    
                                              Bradford Pear and Walnut 

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Carved Boxes
                                   
                                                                                                               
Carved Boxes are handmade using wood culled from local fallen trees, oak pine and cedar, the boxes originate from the hurricanes that have hit North Carolina, Fran and  Floyd in particular.  They are cut in my sawmill and "air dried" for several years, before being formed into the boxes with a "medieval flavor“. 

The decorations reflect the mythical and real animals used in Heraldry, Lions, Griffins (the head and body of a lion and the wings of an eagle), many of these also had religious significance and can be seen on many early churches - the griffin in early church decoration was associated with Jesus.

Lions were popular embellishments - implying courage and ferocity, the Fleur de Lys was a French royal symbol but appears on English royal arms reflecting the claims dating from the 100 years war when England did own most of France!   The use of most of these images in heraldry dates from the 12th century and a wide range of symbols were put together in a variety of ways to form unique coats of arms, following strict and complicated rules, for noble families (or ones that could afford them!) each symbol represented some aspect of their family history. All of the leading knights of the crusades back in the 12th to 15th centuries would have had and they can be seen throughout the Mediterranean and Europe dating from the times when the possession of a coat of arms put you at the top of society in the day.

The "Green Man" is a more ambiguous figure, guardian of the woods and forest always seen peering between the leaves, also a popular name for Pubs in England!  In earlier centuries the range of furniture was more limited than it is today and boxes of all kinds were very common from roughly nailed planks to elaborate chests, used for all kinds of storage, the more mobile the family the more likely that their possession would be kept in boxes or trunks.

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