Rodger MacMunn
Sandblasted 48-by-71-in. Corafoam U150 15-lb. HDU panel, finished with Porter AcriShield exterior acrylic paint and 23K gold leaf on the lettering. “Donna drew the strawberries,” says Rodger, “I carved them, then Donna painted them. The texture behind the gold is done with Gorilla Glue, a trick I learned from Sal Cabrera.”
CNC-carved 20-lb. HDU board done using Dan Sawatzky’s Texture Magic Woodgrain for the background texture. It’s finished with exterior acrylic paint; numerals are carved and finished with 23k gold leaf. Rodger painted the long-eared owl. 
CNC-carved 15-lb. HDU board panel finished with exterior acrylic paint. Lettering is finished with W&B palladium leaf.
CNC- and hand-carved 15-lb. HDU panel, finished with acrylic house paint, on rough-sawn plank background.
Their truck is a digital print.
Hand-lettered on 40-in.-wide pine finished with Porter Acri-Shield exterior acrylic paint. “I call this a ‘sign-shelf,’” Rodger says. “They’re great for the man-cave.”
The late Bill Riedel was a friend of Rodger’s. Rodger noticed that Bill didn’t have a dimensional sign at his cabin in the Catskills, so he made one using Bill’s go-to script. Rodger did the pictorial.
Rodger carved the great gray owl that graces his shop sign. It’s 53-in. wide and 4-in. thick, carved from 15-lb. HDU board and finished with exterior acrylic paint.
The shop sign is a sandblasted 15-lb. HDU panel,12-by-5-ft. overall, finished with exterior acrylic paint. The lettering was carved from 15-lb. HDU board, finished with 23k gold leaf.
Sandblasted 32-by-35-in. panel of 15-lb. HDU board finished with acrylic house paint and 23k gold leaf over a Gorilla Glue texture on the letters. Donna did the pictorial.
CNC-carved 20-by-20-in. 15-lb. HDU board panel finished with acrylic house paint. Numerals are domed with Coastal Enterprises PB Resin and finished with 23k gold leaf. 
CNC-carved 32-by-47-in. 15-lb. HDU board panel finished with acrylic house paint and 23k gold leaf; pictorial by Donna.
Sandblasted western red cedar finished with exterior acrylic paint
Rodger designed and built this sign, and Donna did the pictorial. “They wanted a dog and a cat together on the sign,” he says. “The kitty would have been lost beside the dog. After some headscratching, it occurred to me to put one on each side. They loved it.” Sandblasted 15-lb. HDU board panel finished with acrylic house paint. Letters are domed with Coastal Enterprises PB Resin and finished with 23k gold leaf.
The graphics were done with a paint mask on a 7-ft.-wide panel of ¾-in. Extira treated fiberboard. “The steel corners are both decorative and structural,” says Rodger, “and the blacksmith and anvil are plasma-cut steel. Tim is an awesome blacksmith who does all my steel brackets and inserts.”
Another of Rodger’s “sign shelves” that doubles as an entry sign in the customer’s office. The lettering is finished with 19k caplain gold leaf.
A look inside Rodger’s office/design room...
...and inside the shop.
Sandblasted 15-lb. HDU board finished with exterior acrylic paint and 23k gold leaf. Rodger did most of the pictorial; Donna added the owners’ daughter on the dock.
Sandblasted 28-by-22-in. western red cedar panel finished with exterior acrylic paint and acrylic house paint. The client is a beekeeper, so Donna’s pictorial featured a bee at work.
