Subject: Re: Veneer from Constantines

From: Philip Roybal <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:45:23 -0800

I've been waiting for two months for Constantine's to fill my order for
mahogany veneer. They were vairly prompt about filling orders for poplar
crossbanding and sapele and walnut burl veneers. I recently got a card
saying my order would ship around the beginning of March, but it's not
here yet.

Phil

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:19:37 GMT

I was considering buying some Koa veneer from Constantine's recently.
I had been looking for some Koa, and Constantine's catalog came in the
mail (the first one they've sent me), and lo-and-behold, they offered
Koa for a very low price (<$2/ft^2).  It seemed too good to be true.
Previous to these posts, I was seriously considering going for it.   

After reading people's posts about long delays, etc., I called up
Certainly Wood (with whom I've dealt with before, successfully).  I
asked if they had Koa: yes.  How much? $5.25/ft^2.  A bit more, but
>from  personal experience, I knew it would be decent quality.  How big
are the sheets?  8"-10" wide by about 11 feet long.  How much did they
have? A couple thousand sq. ft.    What did it look like?

Well, describing veneer over the phone is not easy, so I asked if I
could get a small sample.  No problem.  This was Wednesday morning.
Thursday afternoon, a 2nd day UPS mailer was in my mailbox.  Suprise:
a nice big (8"x10") sample of beautiful broken fiddleback Koa, plus a
catalog, etc.  I was shocked.  BTW, I live in SoCal, and they're in
NY.  Not bad service, huh?  They'll be getting my order soon.  Give'm
a try.  I did, and I'm quite satisfied.

Jeff
Carpinteria, CA

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From: Philip Roybal <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 08:13:17 -0800

> saying my order would ship around the beginning of March, but it's not

Well, my monarch (large sheets of) mahogany veneer finally arrived
yesterday from Constantine. They look good. Just wish they handn't taken
so long to get here. (Shop gets cluttered with half-done projects). Hope
the rest of you waiting for mahogany veneer get yours now too.

Phil

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From: Skip <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:14:59 -0500

Do you have a number or address for Carlton's?

Skip

Michael John Hide wrote:
> 
> "Woody" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> ;Has anybody recently ordered any type of mahogany veneer from
> Constantines?
> ; The first week of february I placed an order for 50 sq. feet of
> figured
> ;mahogany veneer.  At the time it was backorderded, but they said they
> were
> ;expecting a shipment within 2 weeks and it would be shipped out.  4
> weeks
> ;later I called them and they still had not gotten any.  Not wanting
> to
> ;delay my project any longer, I asked to change the order to regular
> ;mahogany.  "Well........we're out of that, too."  was the response.
> Has
> ;anybody had experiences with Constantines in this type of matter?
> Should I
> ;continue to wait, or is there another place that has good prices AND
> good
> ;service?  thanks
> 
> ;[email-masked]
> 
> Back again , try carltons rare woods in atlanta ,he has scads of
> veneer on hand ,word of advice ,Carltons getting on a bit ,but try and
> deal with him rather than Richard.In any account he will talk your ear
> off .
>                                      mjh

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From: [email-masked](Edward O'Grady)
Date: 1 Apr 1997 05:00:07 GMT

>> deal with him rather than Richard.In any account he will talk your
ear

Constantine's has some really beautiful wood, I just got some
incredible Zebrawood, 3/4 in. thick and some Mahog., same thickness.
The problem with availability is a very real one...It seems to me,
buying 3/4 inch thick lumber, that they are the only source anywhere
near me and they run out of things...I'm suprised they can't get it
after a month or so...I find them very co-operative.
                       
    Good luck.
                                        wally o

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From: [email-masked] (#10 Ox)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 14:04:12 GMT

Constantines, eh?  They have a store in Manhattan?  I went by while
visiting.  There was one other customer, being helped in buying a single
handsaw by 3 sales people who were too busy with this to help me. If that
is the service in person, how well would mail order work?  TS
--"Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistiguishable from malice"
--"Truly, wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a
--valueless thing at the last."  Haggard
--"This...is...from......Matilda...."  Leon
--"There are no lies in chess"
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--...I get the uneasy feeling that Bill Gates now controls the horizontal and the vertical...
   Craig Sauls via n.g.

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From: [email-masked] (Sal Marino)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:30:43 GMT

>--...I get the uneasy feeling that Bill Gates now controls the horizontal and the vertical...
I think you have your companys mixed up.  Constantine's is not in
Manhattan,  Also Constantine's showroom never has only one person in
it.  Are you sure you didn't get them mixed up with Garrett Wade which
is in Manhattan.