Eighteen miles.
Twenty-one towns.
A hand-painted signpost for the stretch of sand you’ve been going to your whole life. Four mainstay towns, plus a fifth one you choose — included. Cut from reclaimed wood in my shop, an hour up the Parkway from the Causeway.
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The fifth one is yours
Every LBI sign comes with Surf City, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven and Barnegat Light — the four everybody knows — under the LBI sign on top.
The fifth arrow is left open on purpose. The town that actually matters to you probably isn’t one of the famous four. It’s wherever the house is, or the beach you’ve walked every morning since you were a kid.
Tell me which one you want and I’ll paint it. No extra charge.
Not on the list? It doesn’t have to be a town at all. Ask me.
In the garden
On the porch
By the door
By the pool
Build your sign
Six signs, pre-drilled and ready, plus a painted 5-foot treated post and color-matched screws. Goes together in about five minutes.
Six signs. Mount them on a fence, a wall, a piling, or a post of your own.
Free shipping anywhere in the continental US
Your fifth town is included. If you want to change any of the four mainstays as well:
Want the whole thing built from scratch — a street, a boat, the house name? That’s a custom sign.
It looks weathered because it is
I could buy new lumber. It would be faster and a lot less work. But new wood looks new, and you can always tell — the fake-distressed signs in home stores have sanded-on scratches and printed-on “age.”
Mine doesn’t need any of that. I reclaim every board myself, mostly from pallets I track down around town and break apart by hand, pulling out every nail. That wood already spent years outside before it ever reached my shop. The grey in the grain is real. So are the knots, the nail holes and the splits.
Then it gets cut, sanded, hand-stenciled, painted, distressed and sealed with spar urethane. The posts are treated lumber, ripped down and painted to match.
No two are the same, and none of them look like they came out of a box.
Who makes these
Hi, I’m Tim. I make every one of these myself — no staff, no factory. When you message this page, you’re talking to the person who’s going to reclaim the wood, cut it, paint it and pack it.
I’ve never been much of a salesman. I’d rather just build you something good.
Questions
- Which towns come as standard?
- Surf City, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven and Barnegat Light, with the LBI sign on top. The fifth arrow is yours to choose at no extra cost — just tell me which town when you order.
- What if I want to change the four mainstays too?
- You can. Swapping one is $25, two is $35, three is $45, all four is $55. Your free fifth choice still applies on top of that.
- How long does it take?
- About a week, including your fifth town. Two to four weeks if you’re also swapping the mainstays.
- What does shipping cost?
- Nothing, anywhere in the continental US.
- Do I have to dig a hole for the post?
- You don’t have to. Plenty of people sink it in the garden, but it also drops straight into a patio umbrella table base — handy if you’re renting the house out or bringing it in over winter.
- Will it hold up at the shore?
- It’s sealed with spar urethane and built for outdoors. Salt air and full sun will soften the colors over a few years — somewhere with afternoon shade keeps them brightest.
- How big is it?
- The top sign is about 5.5″ × 11″. Each town arrow is roughly 3.25″ × 17.5″. On the post it stands 5 feet tall.