Running CNC mills, lathes, and welding out of the same Hickory shop since 1970.
R.H. Bolick & Company has run CNC mills, lathes, and welding equipment out of the same shop in Hickory, NC since 1970. We’re a precision machine shop and a job-shop at once, which means we’ll cut one part or run thirty thousand, whichever the job calls for. Most rush work leaves our floor within 24 to 48 hours of drop-off. Standard jobs typically move in about two weeks. If you’re searching for a machine shop in Hickory, NC that picks up the phone and gets moving, you’ve found it.
Three capabilities cover most of what comes through our door, and a lot of jobs use all three before they’re done.
Turning, milling, and surface grinding have been the core of this shop since 1970. We machine parts for local fiber-optic companies and for a machine builder that supplies them, refurbish and convert older equipment, and run a single prototype part as often as a longer production order. If your job calls for tight tolerances on a short run, this is where it starts.
Our water jet cuts material up to three inches thick, in stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and most other metals a job might call for. A good share of that work comes from other machine shops that send us overflow jobs when their own equipment can’t reach the thickness or precision they need.
MIG welding covers most of what we build; TIG comes in when a job calls for it. Past projects range from small fixtures to full machine conversions, including reworking imported saw-blade sharpeners to run on CNC controls. If you’ve got a machine that needs a custom part welded or rebuilt, that’s a job we’ve done before.
Turnaround speed is the reason most new customers give for staying, and the numbers behind it are real.
We don’t call this emergency machining, because that promises something we can’t always deliver. What we can promise is a quick turnaround machine shop that tells you the truth about timing up front. From there, we move faster than many shops in the area once the job hits the floor.
If you haven’t worked with a shop before, it’s fair to wonder whether the quote on paper matches the work you’ll get. That’s the most common hesitation we hear from first-time callers: will the quality hold up, and will it show up on time. Talk to anyone who’s called us before, and the answer tends to be yes on both counts.
Rush jobs: 24 to 48 hours from drop-off, when the part allows it.
Standard jobs: about two weeks, versus four to six weeks common elsewhere in the region
56 years operating in the same location in Hickory, NC
60+ years of combined crew experience, including one machinist who’s run these machines for over three decades
Richard Bolick founded this shop in 1970, and three generations of the same family have kept it running since. Decisions get made on the shop floor, by people who’ve run these machines consistently.
Most of our work comes out of Hickory and Catawba county, but we ship to manufacturers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. If your shop needs overflow capacity, or a part machined outside your own equipment’s range, that regional reach is there when you need it.
Standard jobs typically take about two weeks. Rush jobs, when the part allows it, can leave our floor in 24 to 48 hours of drop-off.
Both. We’re a job shop, so a single prototype part and a thirty-thousand piece production run get the same shop and the same attention.
Stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and most other metals, up to three inches thick.
We’re based in Hickory, NC, in Catawba County. Most work stays local, but we ship to manufacturers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Send us a drawing, a photo of the part, or just a description of what needs to be machined, cut, or welded, and you’ll hear back within 24 hours. Contact us to start a quote, or visit the pages for Machining Services, Water Jet Cutting, and Welding for the full range of what we do.
