Pollocksville, NC · Serving eastern North Carolina since 1996

Signs built, permitted & installed

One team takes your sign from permit paperwork to the crew that hangs it: drawn, fabricated, and installed. If it breaks later, we fix that too.

Crane lifting the Neuse Sport Shop pylon cabinet onto brick pillars under storm clouds
PYLON INSTALL · NEUSE SPORT SHOP
5.0on Google · 27 reviews
Since 1996eastern NC, family run
Turnkeypermits · fab · install · service
MCCS · Realoaccount work

What we build

SHEET 01 · MANUFACTURED SIGNS
New Jeff’s Burgers retro pylon sign with LED message center in front of the red-roof dinerPylon signsReadable at 55 mphBruin Theater red marquee-bulb channel letters above the storefront glassChannel lettersLit, letter by letterCoastal Carolina Regional Airport brick monument sign with lowercase ewn letters under a blue skyMonument signsGround-level, built to stayJones County Civic Center brick monument sign with full-color LED board in golden lightLED message centersChange it from your phoneDimensional TOWN HALL letters and the Town of Trent Woods seal on a brick municipal buildingBuilding signsCabinets, letters, bladesPizza Bonez backlit dimensional logo sign on an interior stone wallInterior signsLobby to room numberFirst United Methodist Church lit monument sign with flame-and-cross logo beside brickChurch signsService times, seen from the road

Index of drawings

Real installs of every sign type we build, what each one is made of, and where the money goes. The names matter less than the job; if you can describe the sign you want, the catalog will put a name on it.

All manufactured signs

Night view

Half your sign's shift starts at sunset

An unlit sign clocks out with you. The lit ones (channel letters, halo-lit monuments, LED boards) keep pulling customers off the road all evening. We build the lighting in and we service it when it fails, down to the last LED module.

Illuminated signs
Realo Drugs storefront at night with illuminated channel letters and lit pole sign
NIGHT VIEW · REALO
Boviet Solar halo-lit monument sign glowing white at night
NIGHT VIEW · BOVIET SOLAR, GREENVILLE

Install & service

SHEET 02 · FIELD OPERATIONS
Installer in a bucket lift mounting Candlewood Suites letters with the Bender crane arm across the sky
LETTER INSTALL · CANDLEWOOD SUITES, NEW BERN

Our trucks, our crew

Cranes, bucket trucks, and installers who do this every day, for our own fabrication and as the insured, documented install partner for national sign companies working in eastern NC.

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Bender Signs Freightliner crane truck with crew in the lift servicing a Kia dealership sign
DEALERSHIP SERVICE · CRANE TRUCK

Repair, retrofit, relight

Dark letters, dead LED boards, storm damage, parking-lot lights out: our service department runs stocked trucks across the region, with same-day inventory for the common failures.

Sign service » · Storm damage »

Proof, not promises

SHEET 03 · ACCOUNT WORK

All projects » · Trusted with a Marine Corps base. Trusted with your storefront.

We publish our drawings

SHEET 04 · HOW A SIGN WORKS
Side section of an LED channel letter mounted to a building wall: acrylic face, letter returns, LED modules on aluminum letter backs, and drain holes in the letter bottom on the outside; inside the wall, a transformer box with power supply and a 120 volt, 20 amp disconnect switch, fed from a J-box and primary disconnect installed by the electrician
FIG 01 · CHANNEL LETTER SECTIONNOT TO SCALE

Permits, power, and wind load are the job

The visible sign is the last 20 percent. Before it: the town's sign rules for your address, the drawings, the permit, the engineering for coastal wind, and the electrical hookup we coordinate with your electrician. We handle the rest in-house, and we wrote a plain guide to how sign permits actually work in each eastern NC town and county.

The eastern NC sign permit guide

5.0 stars, 27 reviews, zero complaints

SOURCE · GOOGLE

“The team at Bender is top notch. I already knew they delivered high quality work seeing it all around town but getting the work done for yourself is very exciting, especially when you see the final product. They really delivered and I will be coming back for more of their services.”

Allen Fairbanks · Google review

“Our sign was blown out by Hurricane Florence and Bender came out to check the power to the sign along with drawing up and making a new sign for our facility. When they came out to put it up they were very efficient and got it done within a few hours. Bender signs is the way to go!!”

Iron Guard Storage · Google review

“Best sign company around! In House sign manufacturing, top of the line equipment to get any job done from basic signage to full vehicle wraps to commercial signage and installation of any types, big or small!”

Chris Adams · Google review

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Tell us what the road should see

Call the shop and you'll get someone who has built and hung signs, not a call center. Or send the quote form.

“Quick, precise and exactly what I ordered at a fair price.”