Fraternity & Sorority Seals, Crests & Coat-of-Arms
Fig. 1 - This picture shows some of the different styles of our dimensional wall plaques for college fraternities and sororities. Plaques featuring seals, coat-of-arms, crests, emblems and pins are all shown in this picture. These plaques are carved in 3-D bas-relief, 2.5-D flat relief, and engraved relief. Shown are bronze and brass-plated, gold and silver metallic painted, and multi-color painted plaques. , One has 24K gold and silve-leaf r gilding. Four of the plaques are carved from Mahogany or Cedar wood., the remainder are carved from High-Density-Urethane.
All our Plaques are made in the USA by American craftsmen.
WELCOME TO OUR PHOTO GALLERY OF FRATERNITY & SORORITY PLAQUES
Welcome to the fraternity and sorority 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. This page provides a description and photo Gallery of our standard, custom, and personalized wall and podium plaques for college social and academic fraternities & sororities and their officers, members, and alumni.
Photo galleries and descriptions of seal, coat-of-arms, emblem and logo plaques for universities and colleges are shown in our University & College Seals web page. Plaques for private and public secondary schools, including college preparatory schools, academies, and high schools, are shown in our photo gallery Public & Private School Seals & Logos.
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We design and carve a wide variety of custom and personalized hand-crafted wood and metal dimensional wall and podium plaques of seals, crests, coat-of-arms, emblems, logos, memorials and awards. We offer the highest quality materials and workmanship, great customer service, short turnaround times (typically 30 days from order to shipment), and factory-direct affordable. 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.
PRODUCTS
On this page we show a photo Gallery and descriptions of our custom and personalized carved dimensional wood and High-Density-Urethane (HDU) wall and podium plaques for universities and colleges. We have many styles and materials, and can make plaques in sizes from 10 inches to 10 feet in diameter. We have made plaques featuring seals, coats-of-arms, crests, emblems and logos for over 50 fraternities & sororities across the USA, many of which are shown on this page.
We also make large entrance and monument signs, building signs, way-finding signs, organization signs with photos, wall signs and door signs for fraternities & sororities. These signs are shown on our other website, www.artsignworks.com.
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 badge, shoulder patch, or seal, 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.
Intricate 3-D bas-relief carved wall plaque of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Coat-of-Arms.
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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 their face or figure, 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 vinyl (photos or very elaborate painted or digital art) as an applique on any HDU or wood plaque. For organization chart or award plaques, we make photo frames with glass covers where photos and names can be easily replaced when there are personnel changes.
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PLAQUE RETAIL PRICES
Our plaques have wide variations in prices, depending on size and style. Fig. 5 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 2000 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).
Our lowest price economy 2-D plaques feature digitally-printed full-color giclee vinyl appliques mounted on a round or rectangular a solid wood or acrylic base. The retail prices for this type of two-dimensional (2-D) flat custom plaque are as low as $80 (acrylic base) to $120 (Mahogany solid wood base) for 10 inch diameter plaques. The same style plaques in a 18 diameter size have prices of $120 (acrylic) and $220 (Mahogany). 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 such as shown below), or for new artwork, that we are provided a print-ready JPEG digital photo or colored drawing of the artwork for the plaque (this can be a good high-resolution photo of an existing seal). These are styles 1.4.1 (Price Code EA, wood base) and 1.4.3 (Price Code EB, acrylic base) on our PRICE page, with examples shown on our 2-D Giclee Plaque web page.
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 $370. Prices increase with size. The PRICE page gives prices for carved 2.5-D plaques of various sizes, materials, styles, and number of colors. About 60% of our fraternity and sorority seal 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 seals does not benefit from 3-D rendering, and we recommend a 2.5-D relief carving which looks nearly as good and is about 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 and corporate plaques are also carved in 2.5-D relief.
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 complex coat-of-arms and crests, and are often displayed on the outside entrance to a fraternity house, in an entrance lobby, in a living room, or a chapter room. 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 $560. Prices increase with plaque size and the amount of intricate carving, painting, and also the amount of gold and silver leaf gilding, if any. The PRICE list 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 6 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 fraternity and sorority chapter houses or national headquarters.
Fig 5 - 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.
CONTENTS OF US FRATERNITY & SORORITY PHOTO GALLERY
This Gallery contains photos and designs of wall and podium plaques of the crests, coat-of-arms, seals, emblems, logos, donor plaques and entrance signs of college social and academic fraternities and sororities. These are not listed in any particular order.
Please use the pull-down menu for "Plaque Types " in the gold masthead above to go to the photo galleries for university & college plaques, public & private secondary school plaques, family coat-of-arms & crest plaques, fraternal & civic service club plaques, or any of the 24 other customer-oriented photo gallery types 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 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 Plaque Styles section. To request information, a design, a quote, or to place an order, click on the text (e.g., "contact us", "get a quote", "send a file" or "place an order") in the upper right of the gold masthead at the top of this page. All prices are given on the "Prices" page 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 and Regina will be pleased to help you.
