Thompson Custom Woodworking

Thompson Custom Woodworking is a family millwork shop in Winchester where the finishing is done in house — cabinetry and kitchens, interior and exterior doors and windows, stair treads, balusters and hand rails, built-ins, china cabinets, dining tables, and historical reproductions of doors and millwork for older houses. Furniture and existing woodwork get refinished there too. The shop puts itself at more than 26 years in business, and the family goes back further than that: a July 2017 WickedLocal piece described Brian Thompson as having been in the workshop all his life, and a WCVB story that August described a local business more than a quarter of a century in. Houzz gives the working range as Boston through Cape Ann, and Procore lists the company for design and engineering and finish carpentry. One thing to raise directly: the alerts site bkalerts.com lists a Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court case, number 1:19-bk-12978, under the name Thompson Custom Woodworking, Inc. Ask the shop what that was and how it ended before you put a deposit down on commissioned work. For reproduction millwork in a period house — matching a stair rail that exists nowhere in a catalogue, or a door profile nobody stocks — this is the kind of shop that makes it rather than orders it. Get the deposit schedule, the shop drawings and the finish spec in writing, and ask to see a finished piece of the sort you are commissioning.