I do not recommend All Granite (also known as No. 1 Granite). My sister used them and they are less expensive but her slabs discolored. I also heard bad things about them from other places while shopping. Be cautious. I bought my slab from European Marble & Granite in Jamesburg, NJ. Their website is emgcorp.com. Large yard with very nice people. They have several branches. I went to all of them I think (in Queens, Long Island, etc.)...LOL! Also IGM in New Jersey had a large selection and I think their place was an indoor warehouse. Good luck.

We are in Woodside and used Tikal Tile in Redwood City on Bay Rd. My GC uses him and we were very happy. I didn't deal with him (Jose) directly, but did visit my slabs once they arrived there and also after they templated to see where they would be placed on the slab. I bought my slabs at All Natural Stone in Santa Clara (San Jose?). When I went to pay for them, and said who my fabricator would be, they automatically gave me his discount. Tikal Tile also did my backsplash and did a really nice job on that, too!

Here's the dealio on the "dissappearing slab" issue - CA$H IF YOU paid someone to secure THE SLABS that you originally fell in love with and those slabs got "lost" after you wrote the check - then something ELSE is stinking like a red herring in Denmark........ Terilee: IF you paid your contractor a deposit to "secure" the slabs - and then the slabs were "lost" - your contractor is at fault and should do things to "fix" the issue - like pulling your slabs out of his ARSE to make you happy.... The problem here is that contractors get paid the deposit, then they don't apply those same funds to securing the slabs in question - they use your deposit money for something else. So then.......... the slabs that YOU fell in love with are still "available" (even though YOU put down a deposit to "lock the up for you") anyone else can aquire YOUR chosen slabs........ Your contractor usually has five days - from the time YOU sign on the dotted line - (affriming that yes in deed - THESE are the SLABS FOR ME) until he has to EITHER issue a Purchase Order to the distributor to have YOUR slabs shipped to his shop, or pay COD to hold the slabs or have them delivered to his shop - in accordance with the time line on your project. IF NO MONEY IS PAID to the distributor - he's NOT going to hold any slabs for anyone - no matter how much in love you are with your Delicatus.... THAT's the way this business works. They will NOT hold a slab with out some money being thrown into the mix. No tikki - no washi!!!! This could have been the case here..... maybe - maybe not -the fact of the matter is now - you have to FIND your slabs all over again, and this time - MAKE SURE that the slabs you pick are the the slabs you get. I'd stay away from using the grease pencil all over tha face of the slab as some stones will absorb the grease pencil and it'll be hard to remove all of that residue - kind of defeats the purpose - you'll get your slab, but it'll take an hour or so to get all of the grease pencil off the face - I would write it all on the BACK of the slab instead - as it's a really good idea, just not (IMHO) on the polished face of the stone..... does that make sense? Anyways - hth - Like a great Urologist told me a long time ago: This too shall pass........ hth kevin

I am a fabricator. We sometimes have customer selected slabs rehoned when, upon inspection at our shop, we notice scratches or inconsistent finish. Our 1st step is to accompany the customer to select their slabs. Then, most of the time, if there are objectionable aspects to the customers stone we can point it out then. (I don't know why most fabricators don't help with the slab selection when it prevents SO MANY of the typical problems.) If a slab has to be refinished there are two typical avenues; one is to have it refinished at a supplier with a polishing line. 2nd is for the fabricator to use a radial arm router and a skilled operator. (Most fabricators do not have this capability.) Either route can produce a nice finish but neither can be counted on to provide an exact match to the original finish. A third, relatively recent option due to newly available tooling, is to hone the slab with a CNC. We haven't done this yet so I can't comment on the quality of the finish. When we refinish a slab we require the customer to sign off that whatever the finish looks like will be acceptable.