Military

US Coast Guard Seal, Insignia, Patch & Command Board Plaques

Fig. 1 - Shown above are different styles of our dimensional wall plaques for the US Coast Guard. Most of the plaques shown are carved in 3-D bas-relief, the rest are carved in 2.5-D flat relief with a few with 2-D giclee appliques. Shown are multi-colored and metallic silver painted, brass and nickel-silver plated, and stained Mahogany and Cedar plaques.

ALL OF OUR SIGNS & PLAQUES ARE MADE IN THE USA BY AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN

WELCOME TO OUR PHOTO GALLERY OF US COAST GUARD PLAQUES

Welcome to the US Coast Guard plaque page of the website of The Wood & Metal Plaque Company, a division of Art Sign Works, Inc. that specializes in designing and manufacturing custom plaques. 

If you have just entered our website and you want an overview of our company and all our products, please start with our Home page ( upper left in top gold masthead), which has a listing of all plaque types in the silver box on the left side of the page.  Other web pages and photo galleries can be visited by clicking on the titles and pull down menus in the gold masthead at the top of this page. These include  Federal  agencies (including the Department of Homeland Security) , police & sheriff,  and fire department badge and patch plaques. 

. We make commissioning Plankowner plaques, ship crest plaques , Command Boards, and Sailor-of-the-Quarter Boards for Coast Guard Cutters

This page provides a description and photo Gallery of our standard, custom, and personalized  wall and podium plaques for Coast Guard units,  officers, and other personnel. We  design and carve a wide variety of custom and personalized hand-crafted wood and metal dimensional wall and podium plaques of seals, emblems, logos, badges, insignia, memorials and awards. We provide the highest quality materials and workmanship, great customer service, short turnaround times (typically 30 days from order to shipment), and factory-direct affordable prices to government, commercial, non-profit and consumer clients. We also offer wholesale prices to retailers and re-sellers, and discounts for buys of 3 or more identical plaques. All our plaques are manufactured in the USA  by Americans using American-made materials.

Coast Guard Change of Command Ceremony, with Cutter in Background. We make podium plaques, shipboard plaques and Command Boards for Coast Guard cutters.

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We have many styles and materials, and can make plaques in sizes from 10 inches to 10 feet in diameter. This page shows plaques featuring the  Seal and Emblem of the US Coast Guard, and seals and insignia of major commands, over 100  insignia, badges and shoulder patches of groups, bases, stations and ships, title and rank plaques, Command Boards, and personalized awards & memorial plaques.  Photo galleries and descriptions of  plaques of the seals and unit crests  for the DoD and the other four armed forces (US Navy, US Marine Corps,  US Air Force, and the US Army) are shown in other galleries in this Military section, which can be viewed by clicking on the underlined link or by clicking on its name listed horizontally immediately below the gold masthead above. Homeland Security plaques are shown in the Federal Government photo gallery.

PRODUCTS

We make attractive and authentic custom carved plaques from natural wood, artist-painted High-Density-Urethane (HDU)  composite, and bronze, brass, nickel-silver,  aluminum-plated  and 24K gold and silver-leaf plaques of all sizes and designs for the  US Coast Guard.  We make custom plaques wall, podium and ship plaques featuring the seals, emblems, insignias, badges, logos and shoulder patches of Coast Guard organizations and personnel. These plaques include facility/organization and unit identity, command boards, unit / individual recognition & awards, and  retirement and memorial plaques. .In this gallery and the other Armed Forces galleries, we have  a total of over 1000 photos of wall plaques and signs that  we have made of military seals, crests, emblems, badges, insignia, medals, flags, and shoulder patches. We make  base entrance signs, building signs, way-finding signs, ship signs, command boards, podium plaques, wall signs and  door signs.

If you have questions on a specific type of plaque you are interested in, or you want information on our plaques or prices, you are always welcome to call Christie, Regina or Liz at 951-698-8484 or you can email us at info@artsignworks.com and we will respond quickly

PLAQUE STYLES

We offer custom carved 2-D, 2.5-D, 3-D and engraved dimensional authentic wall plaques of all sizes, from 10 inches to 120 inches in diameter, which are made from multi-color painted carved High-Density-Urethane (HDU), wood (cedar, redwood, mahogany, oak, maple, cherry), and metal-coated HDU (brass, bronze, copper, silver-nickel,  stainless steel, and aluminum).  We will work with you to design and build the exact wall plaque you want. We can customize the size, shape, carving relief, text, materials, and color scheme of any plaque shown on this page, and we can make a custom plaque for ANY artwork you may have. Send us a drawing, a photo or a rough sketch of your seal or crest, and we will design and make a carved dimensional plaque to your specifications. We  have a large library of existing 3-D and 2.5-D computer models that we use to carve these plaques, which greatly reduces graphic artist labor costs.The various styles of the plaques we make are described in our plaque  STYLES section (click on "STYLES" on upper gold masthead to access pulldown menu). All our plaques are manufactured in the USA by American craftsmen.
 

We make plaques with fast attack boats as artwork.

We can also combine materials on a plaque. We often use Mahogany plaque boards and carve 3-D HDU appliques which are either multi-color painted or metal-plated, to mount on the Mahogany. We can cut out text and artwork from thin sheets of aluminum and mount  these on 2.5-D Mahogany or cedar plaques with raised text and art; we call these metal-clad wood plaques.  The contrast between the shiny metal and rough dark wood is striking. We often gild  V-carved text of Mahogany plaques with 24K gold or silver leaf. We can also gild  areas of painted HDU plaques, usually raised text and art. We also make separate cut-out metal, stained wood and painted HDU letters. We can provide a 3-D bas-relief cast bronze and aluminum memorial or living person plaque featuring the face or figure of an officer or enlisted man, etc. if we are provided a good photograph.

 Although we show primarily painted High-Density-Urethane  plaques on this page, we can make any plaque out of natural wood (stained) or put any of several types of metallic coatings/color schemes on them . We can also put digitally printed long-lasting full color giclee vinyl (photos or very elaborate painted or digital art) as an applique on any HDU or wood plaque. For Command Boards, we make photo frames with glass covers where photos and names can be easily replaced when there are personnel changes.These are described in the Command Boards and Award Boards STYLE sections.,

We make plaques in three different styles of relief, as shown above. Engraved plaques are in the same price category as 2.5-D relief plaques. Prices increase from left to right.

We make plaques with images of Rescue Helicopters .

PLAQUE  RETAIL PRICES

Our  plaques have wide variations in prices, depending on size and style. Fig. 7 below shows our three basic relief styles, 2-D flat relief , 2.5-D multi-level relief, and 3-D bas-relief. These can be made of different materials, including natural wood, artist-painted High-Density-Urethane (HDU) , metal-coated HDU, and acrylic. Our STYLE page describes these in detail.  All 3000 photos of plaques on this website has a Style Category and a Price Code listed in the second or third paragraph in the text description under the photo (click on the photo or title to expand the photo and read the text to get the price code of that plaque, then look up the price for different size plaques with that style on the Price List at the bottom of the PRICE page). 

2-D Giclée Economy Plaques. Our lowest price economy 2-D  giclee printed plaques feature digitally-printed full-color giclee vinyl appliques mounted on a  round  or rectangular  solid wood or acrylic base. The retail prices for this type of two-dimensional (2-D) flat custom plaque are as low as $92 (Sintra or acrylic base) to $102 (Mahogany veneer wood base) for 10 inch diameter plaques.  A set of 5 matched 10 inch diameter service Sintra or acrylic plaques has a price of $414 plus shipping. The same style plaques in a 18 diameter size have prices of  $145 (Sintra or acrylic) and $170 (Mahogany veneer) each.  A set  of five 18 inch diameter matched  Sintra or  acrylic  giclée plaques  (an example is Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard seal plaques) has a price  of $825.

These low prices  assume we have made a previous plaque of the same artwork design  ( featured in one of our Galleries of over 2000 photos, including photos of 3-D plaques), or for new artwork, that we are provided a print-ready JPEG photo or colored drawing of the artwork for the plaque. These are  styles 1.4.1 ( Mahogany veneer base) and 1.4.3 (Sintra base)  shown in the table at the bottom of the PRICE page.   Many examples are shown on our 2-D Giclee Plaques web page. A set of five or more service/Agency  plaques has a discount of 10% compared to these individual plaque prices. We use high-resolution photos of our 3-D carved artist-painted, metal-plated, or stained wood plaques, or we can usehigh-quality colored  drawings ; from a distance they photo versions look exactly like our 3-D carved plaques, except they are flat instead of 3-D. They are  gorgeous because of the very high quality glossy color printing.

Carved 2.5-D  Multi-Level Plaques. Our  carved 2.5-D multi-level or engraved  hand-crafted and artist-painted plaques have prices about twice that of the 2-D flat plaques with giclee printed art. These prices  depend on the size, material, carving complexity, and number of colors. Prices for  custom carved  18  inch diameter 2.5-D artist-painted HDU or stained wood custom plaques vary from $240 to $385. Prices increase with size.  The table at the bottom of the PRICE page gives prices for carved 2.5-D plaques of various sizes, materials, styles, and number of colors. About 80% of our military unit plaques are carved in 2.5-D multi-level flat or engraved relief,  using  High-Density-Urethane (HDU) as the substrate. These are very popular and look great. Many times the artwork provided to us for custom military plaques does not benefit from 3-D rendering, and we recommend a 2.5-D relief carving which looks nearly as good as 3-D and is 1/2 to  2/3 the price. Our 2.5-D relief plaques carve faster and are much faster to paint than 3-D bas-relief plaques, so they have lower prices. Most of our military and many of our government,  university and corporate plaques are carved in 2.5-D relief. 

Carved 3-D Bas-Relief Plaques. Our premium  plaques are carved in 3-D bas-relief,  using wood (usually Mahogany, Cedar, or Redwood), or High-Density-Urethane (HDU) as the substrate. These are higher- priced carved 3-D bas-relief artist-painted plaques, and have prices about 3 times that of the 2-D plaques. These are  very high  quality plaques, which usually feature great seals, and are often ordered by higher level commands in the military services, federal and state government agencies and courts.  Prices for 18  inch diameter 3-D artist-painted or bronze, brass or silver-plated  HDU or stained wood custom plaques vary from $380 to $585 each. Prices increase with plaque size.  The table at the bottom of the PRICE page gives prices for carved 3-D plaques of various sizes, materials, styles, and number of colors.  These high-quality plaques may require  from 8  to  24  hours of machine carving time,  and then 4 to 8 hours of artisan work  to hand-sand and artist-brush paint or metal polish them. They are unique works-of-art for our most discriminating clients.

Chain-of-Command and Award Boards.  We design and make custom wood and HDU chain-of-command and award boards of all sizes from 24 inches to 120 inches wide, for all five services.We make both cutter boards and shore station boards.    These are typically made of wood (African Mahogany, Redwood, Cedar and Oak) but we also make them from High-Density Urethane (HDU). These fully custom typically have several of the  following features:

• Carved raised painted text for permanent positions (e.g., CO, XO, etc) or awards (e.g. guardsman of the month)  
• Picture frames with glass covers for easy to change-out photos,                                
• Brass slide in holders for engraved brass name plates which can be changed out, with optional red and green color indicators  for duty status     
• 2.5-D multi-level or 3-D bas-relief  carved and artist-painted or metal-plated crests, insignia and seals 
• For small or very detailed insignia, printed giclee vinyl appliques  mounted on carved pedestals 

These are described in the Command Boards and Award Boards STYLE sections. Prices for  these wood large chain-of-command and award boards range from about  $1000 for smaller  boards (2 ft x 2 ft)  to over $3500 for very large boards (i.e., 6 x 5 ft).  Boards made of HDU instead of wood are significantly less.   Call us at 951-698-8484 or email us at info@artsignworks.com for specific prices for your custom chain-of-command or award/recognition board .

CONTENTS OF US COAST GUARD PLAQUE PHOTO GALLERY 

This Gallery contains photos and designs of wall and podium plaques of the seals, emblems, logos, and crests  of the US Coast Guard.  Plaques for the other four armed services  are given on four other webpages ( US Navy, US Marine Corps,  US Air Force, and the US Army) in this Military section.

 This Gallery is organized in the following sections, listed in order top to bottom on this page (click on gold underlined text link to go directly to that section or page):

• US Coast Guard Seal and Emblem Plaques -  top of page, begins with photo NP-1000
• Group, Base and Ship Plaques - begins with NP-2000
• Command & award Boards - near bottom of page, begins with NP-2475,

Please use the pull-down menu for "Plaque Types " in the gold masthead above to go to the Federal Government plaques or any of the  24 customer-oriented photo galleries of our plaques.                                                                                    

HOW TO CONTACT US

Please call or email us for a price quote on a specific plaque. We will work with you to design and build the exact plaque you want. One of our  knowledgeable and helpful Customer Service Representatives, Christie , Regina, or Liz, will respond to your request promptly. Call us at 951-698-8484 or email us at info@artsignworks.com. Or, you can fill out and submit our on-line Request a Quote  form. We would like to make your  plaque, and we are confident that you will be pleased with it. We take great pride in every product we make for our valued clients. We offer a 2 year warranty on all our products, and our indoor plaques will last many decades without degradation.                                

WEBSITE NAVIGATION

You can view the bottom of the page using the slider on the scroll bar in the right margin. You can click on a photo or a title of a photo below to see an expanded view and a description of that plaque. You can return to this page by clicking on "Return to List" on the bottom left of each plaque title or description, or by using your back browser button. You can go to another Section or Gallery page by clicking on an item in the pull-down menus in the gold masthead at the top of this page. 

You  can search for a specific plaque type (e.g., "FBI" ) by entering the key word in the search box in the upper right of the gold masthead. You can view a list and use the navigation bar for all 24 Gallery types by viewing the silver box on the left side of the Home  page. You can view a description of different plaque styles by going to the Style section listed above in the gold masthead.  To request information, request a design and a quote, send a file, or to place an order, click on the text (e.g., "contact ", "quote", "file" or "order")  in the far upper  right of the gold masthead at the top of this page.  All prices are given on the "Price" page in the menu in the gold masthead. 

For more information on design options, prices and delivery times, please call us at 951-698- 8484 or email us at info@artsignworks.com, and our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives Christie, Regina and Liz will be pleased to help you.