Bjorn.LaSanche

These guys are my go to source for most items  for my projects. Luthiers Mercantile doesn’t carry a lot of electric build items and are good for acoustics.  Stew Mac, well some of their finish stuff is ok in a pinch.  If you want your wallet raped on old harbor freight quality tools, yet have to pay Lie Nelson prices because it says Stewart MacDonald?  I’ll pass.  Go to Philadelphia Luthier Supply, it’s a smaller business that sells quality supplies.  Their nut blanks are seriously choice. They carry Jescar feet wire for less than the other above mentioned shops. If they don’t carry something. Tell them what you’re looking for and they will get the stuff.  The only thing they don’t carry is finishing supplies,  They also answer emails in a timely manner. The other two places do not. 

I have not personally purchased from this company yet, so I cannot comment on the level of service, but they seem to have a nice supply of woods I have not seen elsewhere and of sizes I simply have not seen. I have not seen a 1200lb slab of Gabon Ebony with live edge offered anywhere that is the size of me. Ever. But there was one on their website a few days ago.   Their prices are fairly high, but they do pallet packs for those of you who build more than one or two a year.  That’s where the deals are.  There was a wenge pallet of 200bdft that roughly equates out to be around $11-12/bdft. Lots of Bloodwood,   They have two or three species on sale weekly.  Just looked like a source for larger amounts of the upper end of exotics.