Thompson Pickleball makes pickleball paddles. Its models are built with raw carbon fiber faces over honeycomb cores and an edgeless urethane sidewall construction the company calls TrueFeel, in a small lineup of numbered models rather than a broad catalog. Thompson is a paddle manufacturer in Boyne City, in northern Michigan, that builds its paddles in-house at its own facility with domestic materials and sells through its own website, which also runs a paid demo program that ships each model out for a week of testing.