About Our Company

Stone Direct International is a quarrier, direct importer and marketer of both common and unique stone. Our stone is quarried in several states of Mexico, including Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Baja California and Nuevo Leon. In the United States we quarry or work with quarrying partners in Oklahoma, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho, California, Arizona, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas. We do a tremendous amount of natural stone thin veneer fabrication, tumbling and snap cutting. Our primary business for more than a decade has been to supply material exclusively to our reputable base of quality building supply companies and exclusive stone yards throughout the Southwest United States and beyond.

In the past, contractors, builders and homeowners were only referred to visit directly with our professional dealers. Although this system still works quite well, we realize, that as a company, we have given up a substantial amount of business since we are not represented by dealers on a national basis. With the power of the internet, less than full load national and international shipping capability, and the reality that real stone thin veneer does not cost the customer that much more on a per square foot basis due to long distance shipping, we have decided to expand our horizons and open the doors to you!

If you are a contractor, builder or home owner, and you are interested in more information about our stone, we will be happy to discuss your project and work with you on estimating your cost for our stone delivered directly to your jobsite. From our experience, a minimum job size to justify LTL shipping costs is at least 500 sq. feet and / or linear feet.

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Why Has The Market Moved From Installing Full Bed Ledge Stone to Real Stone Thin Veneer?

Why, because the end use consumer is getting a better deal. The final cost of installing natural stone on personal residence or commercial building is the cost of both the stone and the labor combined. That cost equation has pushed the market from installing full bed depth natural stone in years gone by, to the majority of the market being the installation of natural stone thin veneer.

Natural stone thin veneer is is the real deal. It is just fabricated REAL STONE, either in a "processing plant," or occasionally "on the job." Unlike fake (aka "cultured," or "manufactured") stone, which is made of concrete, plaster and paint products - real stone "thin veneer" is a sawn off portion of the real version of the full stone (100% made by nature). It has all the properties of the full bed stone; including its hardness, color and natural beauty. It will not fade or deteriorate like the man made imitations. If fabricated in a high quality environment, the "processor" will normally saw off the the front and rear "rise" of the natural ledgestone. Picture taking a brick shaped piece of a full size stone and sawing off the front and back "faces" to yield a natural face, and natural surface top, bottom and ends. The normal specification is for the stone to have a new thickness of approximately 1" - 1 3/8" and a maximum weight of under 15 lbs per square foot. Natural looking "corners" are achieved the same way - however more waste is involved if the product is high enough quality to be sawn to have all natural ends. Again, imagine a brick shaped piece of natural ledge stone, look down at it from a top view, and imagine cutting one "L" shape corner out of it. The rest of the piece is scrap if it is to have all natural exposed surfaces.

At our company, as a quarrier of natural stone, and also a fabricator of natural stone thin veneer, we don't really care which product is being sold - but the reality is that the consumer has pushed the market towards natural stone thin veneer because the total job cost is less expensive doing it that way. It all makes perfect sense, dollars and cents!

The Thin Veneer Store has been designed as a place for the general public, home owners, contractors, and builders, to purchase real stone thin veneer directly from the source. Our parent company, Stone Direct International, LLC has been supplying stoneyards and building material companies for over a decade. Our main business model has not changed and we will continue to protect our valued dealers. However, we realize that there are a lot of consumers in the USA and Canada, and possibly beyond, that we do not reach with our current dealer network. The internet has certainly changed the reach of conventional marketing. There may be some individual people, that inquire because of this website, that we will have to decline to sell to directly due to a conflict with our loyalty to dealers. However, if you are serious about your project with natural stone thin veneer, and your job is at least 500 sq. feet and/or linear feet, we encourage you to inquire through e-mail or phone.