Seventeen years of bending aluminum on Fannie Street.
We are a six-person sign shop. We build what we sell, we install what we build, and we answer the phone when something quits working at 9pm on a Friday — which, in this trade, is exactly when something quits working.
The short version
Richard Morales grew up watching his uncle hand-paint stadium signs in Brownsville. After ten years installing for a regional sign company out of Houston, he came back to Matagorda County, leased a garage on the south side of Bay City, and started Lone Star Lumen Co. in late 2008.
The first job was a back-lit cabinet for a barbecue place in Markham. It's still up. So is the second one, and the fifteenth. That's mostly the standard we work to.
Today the shop sits on a fenced lot at 3985 Fannie Street. We've got a CNC router, a Multicam channel-letter bender, a 60-inch paint booth, a 35-foot boom, and a yard full of finished projects waiting on install day.
Who you'll meet
Richard Morales — Owner, designer, master fabricator. Most likely person to answer the phone.
Eli, Marcos & Trey — Shop crew. Between them, 38 years of channel-letter and electrical work.
Diana — Permits, scheduling, accounts. The reason your install actually happens on the day we said it would.
Five rules we don't break for anyone.
Build it to outlast the lease.
Aluminum returns over plastic, UL-listed wiring, weep holes drilled where they're supposed to be.
Quote what we'll charge.
Written estimates that account for permits, lifts, and engineering — not a teaser number followed by surprises.
Pull every permit.
Bay City, Wharton, Palacios, El Campo — we file, we attend the inspection, we don't hand you the citation.
Show up when it breaks.
Most service calls within 48 hours. Storms come first, then the lit cabinet at the boutique.
Stand behind it for two years.
Written workmanship warranty plus a no-charge inspection at the one-year mark.
Stay small enough to care.
We turn down work when we can't do it well. There's always a better shop somewhere, and we'll tell you who.
Want to tour the shop?
Come by Fannie Street — coffee's usually on. Book a visit or call 979-244-6661.
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