R.H. Bolick & Company is a family-owned machine shop in Hickory, North Carolina. We make parts for manufacturers, from a single shaft to a production run, and we’ve done it in the same Hickory location for more than five decades.
Machining has been the core of the shop from the start. Some of our customers have been with us for 30 to 40 years.
Richard Bolick founds R.H. Bolick & Company in Hickory, NC.
Matt Bolick joins the company.
Matt takes over operations.
Matt buys the shop’s first water jet. Water jet cutting has since grown into a specialty of the shop.
Matt’s daughter joins the company.
Matt and his wife, Stacy, complete the transition to ownership.
Three generations of the same family have kept this shop running.
Matt Bolick runs the shop and owns it with his wife, Stacy. Their daughter works with the shop foreman on customer orders.
The crew has more than 60 years of combined experience, and one machinist has run these machines for over three decades. When you call with a problem, you talk to someone who works in the shop.
Since 1970, R.H. Bolick has machined parts for local manufacturers and mold makers, along with the machine builders who call when something needs converting or rebuilding. We’re a family business with a longtime crew, and we plan to stay rooted for a long time to come.
To be the machine shop manufacturers across the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia call first for work that needs a fast turnaround and a shop willing to think through a complicated setup.
Calls usually start with a part that needs to be made or a machine that’s down. Customers send drawings their engineers designed, or they bring in a worn part to be remade. Either way, we start with what you have. If your part doesn’t fit our equipment, we’ll tell you.
We’re a job shop, so we take one part or a production order. We tell you the truth about timing up front:
Rush jobs: Usually ready within 24 to 48 hours of drop-off when the part allows it. A recent rush job went out the same day, about six hours after it came in.
Standard jobs: About two weeks.
Calls and emails: You’ll hear back within 24 hours.
A part that arrives in the morning can often leave that afternoon. When it can’t, we’ll say it could be tomorrow morning.
Our customers are manufacturers. Three kinds of work come through the shop most often:
Fiber-optic companies: We machine parts for local fiber-optic companies and for a machine builder that supplies them.
Equipment refurbishers: One customer refurbishes older imported saw-blade sharpeners and converts them to CNC controls, and we make many of the replacement parts.
Plants running overseas equipment: When waiting on the original manufacturer would cost weeks, we remake the part here.
Other machine shops send us water jet work too. We cut the parts, and they finish the machining in their own shops.
Learn more about our Machining Services, Water Jet Cutting Services, and Welding Services.
Matt sponsors a bot battle event at a local science center every year, alongside other local companies. We cut keychains for it on our water jet.
Phone: (828) 322-7847
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Walk-ins are welcome during business hours. If you’d like to see the mill room, the turning centers, and the welding area, ask when you stop in. To start a quote, send a drawing or describe the part.
Since 1970. Richard Bolick founded the shop in Hickory, NC, and it has stayed in the family since.
Matt Bolick and his wife, Stacy, completed the transition to ownership in 2023.
Yes. A single prototype part and a 30,000 piece production run get the same shop and the same attention.
Rush jobs usually leave within 24 to 48 hours of drop-off when the part allows it. Standard jobs run about two weeks.
We’re a family-owned machine shop in Hickory, NC, in Catawba County. Most work stays local, but we ship to manufacturers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia.
