pearlite????

[Kris]

Does anyone know where I can buy sheets of pearlite?? I have tried google and can't seem to locate a supplier. All I see is definitions and gun grips made from it.

Thanks, Kris

[phildcrowNOSPAM]

Mebbe try a lutherie supplier? If I understand it correctly, that is. I'm thinking pearlite is, um, sheets of pearly-looking stuff (like what is used for accents on guitar necks).

If that's the case, I would repost this message to the music.makers.builders newsgroup. I can't remember if it's rec. or alt.

Hope it helps.

-Phil Crow

[Kris]

I am looking for pearlite 1/4" and thicker luthier suppliers don't have that.

Thanks though

[Charlie Self]

Kris notes:

I tried a fast Google or two and discovered, among other things, that "pearlite" is heavily involved with metals, specifically sheet steel in the instances I found. So that's not much help.

I did try looking up plastics manufacturers. I suggest you do the same: you'll find most are Asian, I think (seem to be heavily Indian, then Chinese, Malaysian, Thai). Check with their sites to see what they make and then find a way (this may be a lot of fun) to ask them who their U.S. distributors are.

Good luck.

Charlie Self "I think we agree, the past is over." George W. Bush

[Fly-by-Night CC]

Your post, Charlie, led me to pull out my woodturning catalogs as the pen makers often use similar pearly material but not in sheet form. It appears a more accurate label instead of pearlite would be acrylester and celluloid. A quick google search using these words along with sheet and knife or gun turned up what I think is what the OP is looking for.

For example: