A question was asked in another topic, so I am answering it here.
Ken Grunst wrote:
Is Thermowood the company that had a fire in some of their buildings? I contacted them to inquire about doing some tops for me, but I haven't heard back from them. Will they treat small numbers of tops supplied by our forum members? Could you tell us approximately what it costs to treat each top?
Ken, yes, that's the place.
I was just down there on Monday (Took a load of wood down and showed them this guitar).
I talked specifically with John about doing tops for folks. Obviously doing one or two tops is kinda a PITA for them, but they can add small batches to a load. There obviously has to be some minimum fee, so I expect that anything under about 10 tops would cost the same total...there is a lot of handling. Right now, I think tops would run about $6 or so each. They do these in stacks of 5 or 6 sets with a "spoiler board" (can be a scrap top piece or something similar) on the top and bottom of the stack, so send something along. Stacks 2 to 3" thick work well. Another option would be to treat uncut billets. 2 to 3" thick billets treat well.
John put a small load of my stuff in yesterday, mostly brace wood, back billets, neck wood and some fingerboard and bridge blanks.
Also some stuff from one of the big companies and a couple of other builders.
I do understand that one of the sponsors here will be sending down a load of tops. I will let him fill in the details, but keep your eyes open.
Any questions, just ask. If I don't know the answer, I can ask John.
Grant
