Thompson Custom Woodworking

Thompson Custom Woodworking is a Winchester millwork shop that builds and finishes its own work: cabinetry, interior and exterior doors and windows, stair treads, balusters and hand rails, china cabinets and one-off furniture, plus historical reproductions. Keeping the finishing in house is the point it makes about itself — it controls the last step rather than sending pieces out. It is a family business of long standing. A July 2017 local-news piece described Brian Thompson running the shop his father Bruce had started almost thirty years earlier, and noted he had been in it since sweeping floors at age five; a WCVB segment the following month put the company at more than a quarter century of custom furniture. Its own Houzz listing now claims over 26 years, working from Boston out to Cape Ann. One thing to raise directly. A Massachusetts bankruptcy court docket carries a Chapter 7 voluntary petition, case number 1:19-bk-12978, under the name Thompson Custom Woodworking, Inc. at a Beverly address — not the Winchester address on the Houzz listing. Whether that is this shop, a predecessor company, or a different business of the same name isn't clear from what's published, so ask about it plainly, and confirm which legal entity would sign your contract. Nobody has posted a review of the work, so the craft has to be judged in person. Go see finished pieces, and ask for references from a job the size of yours.