There are a few NJ suppliers listed on the ABS website: Asian Influence 303 Casino Dr. Farmingdale, NJ 07727 U.S.A. 732-938-4775 732-751-1220 Tom Palven Retail, local sales. Visits by appointment. Will deliver locally. Prefer e-mail queries. Plants and products Little Acre Farm 223 Victory Rd. Howell, NJ 07731 U.S.A. 732-938-6300 732-938-6340 Ed Woolley littleacrebamboo.com Retail/Wholesale/Mail Order. Visits by appointment only. Will deliver locally & ship within USA. Consulting, design & installation available. Plants and products Touch the Earth, Inc. 54 Georgian Road Morristown, NJ 07960 U.S.A. 973-538-2218 973-538-7673 Bamboo Bob Foley www.idigbamboo.com Wholesale/retail, design & installation, privacy hedges, delivery, worldwide shipping, landscape, consulting, visits by appointment, grove mgmt, removal, purchase groves. www.idigbamboo.com I don't know any of these personally to recommend, but Needmore Bamboo is good in Indiana not too far away for mail order anyway. They specialize in screening bamboo. Probably Bisset, Rubro, or Nuda would be best. Here is a link that might be useful: Needmore Bamboo

Hi Jett, I visited Stone Park on my long countertop search. I think I found out about them from the salesperson I was working with at Stonemasters in Kennett Square (a good place to look too if its not one you've already been to). She directed me to Stone Park because I loved a Sea Pearl Quartzite she had in stock, but it sold out. It is by appointment only, I called the number and the man set up a time for me to meet him there. He arrived at the promised time, opened the huge garage door into the warehouse, and allowed me to browse without bothering me much. They had a very large selection of stones and the most quartzites I had seen anywhere, although I wouldn't say they had a ton. At the time I went, last Summer, they did have Sea Pearl, Calcutta gold quartzite, and another dark green one labled quartzite which was beautiful. They don't have prices labled though and the man wouldn't give me prices, I had to get pricing through the fabricator. This was my only experience in our region dealing with an actual warehouse, though based on GW that seems to be common elsewhere. Unfortunately the price of all the ones I loved there ended up being way out of my price range, Stonemasters was going to charge significantly more to fabricate one from there, compared to one they already had in stock in their own warehouse. I wished I had never gone! In the end, I got Silestone and Marble from another place, lol! I changed my mind a million times. Though if price were no issue, I'd have gotten the leathered Sea Pearl that Stone Park had...it was beautiful. I ended up using Suburban Marble and Granite in Warminster and I was happy with my experience there. Imperial off of 95 near the airport had some quartzites too, and their pricing is good. Which places have you already been to?

I am in Morgantown WV (we have a farm in SWPA) and know the South Hills area (do some shopping there). I would recommend MBC Woodshop in Morgantown WV. They are a local cabinetry / woodworking / furniture company. They made our friend's kitchen cabs out of old wormy chestnut and also made some side tables for them. We had them made a Thos Moser style canopy bed for us, and also a big cherry farmhouse table (we copied the Farmhouse table design from the restoration hardware catalog). I have been very pleased with all the pieces they've made and we are thinking about having them do our kitchen cabs when the time comes for us to pull the trigger on that redo ( still in the planning phase!). I know you are probably leary of going to Morgantown for anything :-) but MBC really is a hidden gem. I don't think they have much of a website but I do think it would be worth your time to contact them at least, particularly if you want to go with high quality locally sourced work. PS I have absolutely no ties to them other than people we know, in addition to us, have been very satisfied with their service.

We've just been going through the same issue and I posted a similar thread: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1010522515542.html?10 We ended up going w/ two different fabricators, one for our island who was a bit more expensive because they can do an invisible seam and one for the rest of the kitchen who was very reasonable in cost and who was recommended on here. They are: Sinai Marble and Granite (they're actually in Baltimore and are doing the island w/ invisible seams) and IMG (Imperial Marble and Granite) http://www.imgstone.net/ Our granite is being installed next week so I'll post back then about how it actually goes. They were great on the templating and very detail oriented, the prices were great and they have been VERY helpful so far. (Sinai actually spent 1 1/2 hrs. making a seam in their showroom for us to look at before we signed the contract to make sure we'd be happy with their work).