"Wow! That is all I can say. The last thin sections you made for me are incredible! Thank you."

"Last time I ended up sending my order to [another lab] because I thought it would be quicker, and it was but they destroyed my samples to the extent that they were unusable. So I am learning to be a bit more patient and wait for high quality thin sections!"

"The Priority order sections arrived to us today and look absolutely fantastic! Thanks very much."

"I have always found your [Petropoxy 154] products of outstanding quality...."

"I'm a PhD student [and] had fantastic slides made by you for my master’s several years ago and would love to employ you in making another suite of slides.... we're happily willing to pay [extra] for it to be done well."

"... I have to admit that I like your Petropoxy very much. I tried it during my sabbatical when I was in Canada and I was rather impressed by the product. I will try to get my French colleagues to use it!"

"Here at the Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences we have always preferred the quality of your thin sections. For our teaching collection we are in need of about 50 covered thin sections, and we were wondering if you could do this work for us."

"The sections you made are awesome. Not a pluck, a wedge or a tustle in the bunch. I couldn’t be happier with them. Thanks again."

"I tried the Petropoxy before...best stuff around. Nothing else comes close. I hope you keep distributing it."

"Hey Brian: your thin sections (my rocks, your sections) are just gorgeous! Crystal clear shard textures. Completely fill the slide, uniform thickness across full length and width, and no plucking. And these rocks were pretty messy. If you ever need a testimonial, feel free to use this."
       --Jim Riehle, Hayden, Idaho

"You two are good in my reckoning of things, so your well-being is an important factor for me."

"The thin sections arrived and they look great! Thank you for your excellent work. As always, I am really pleased and impressed with the high quality of your thin sections."

"The thin sections are excellent, really nice in polish, thickness, and lack of loss along the edges, despite odd mineral assemblages including olivine, serpentine, talc, carbonates and quartz."

"WOOO HOOOO! I'll be excited to get the last of the thin sections you made for me. Thanks so much for letting me know they are coming. And, again, thanks for your resiliency in working such challenging samples."

"I'm looking forward to seeing [my thin sections]. As always, you all do fantastic work!!!"

"Your quality is really superb and I would rather have you do the sections, even if it takes some time!"

"I want to let you know that I have been working with the set of thin sections that you made for me .... They are all of excellent quality and are very useful for my Antarctic Research."

"I've ordered from you before and the sections turned out fabulously!"

"I just wanted to let you know that I received my second batch of thin sections from you today. They look FABULOUS! I appreciate the great care it takes to make them from these challenging rocks."

"The thin sections arrived today in good order. BEAUTIFUL work ! Thanks again for the outstanding thin sections you have produced for me. I will send you a disc with a few high resolution images if you want to use them on your web site. Thank you again for your great craftsmanship!"

"I would not send my samples anywhere else! ... a few minutes ago I was recommending your services to a colleague of mine. Thanks so much for your excellent service!"

"The thin sections you made ... are awesome and [my student] mentioned that the mineral identification was much, much easier than his previous experience using the university's instructional thin sections. [We] worked together on his thin sections yesterday afternoon and there are some amazing zeolite textures in some of the amygdules hosted by volcanic rocks. These would not have been identifiable without an excellent polish. Thanks a million!"

"Your good reputation is well earned in every aspect. I have only heard good things about your work and your company."

"I can't bear sending [my samples] elsewhere. I like your all's work too much!"

"Just wanted to say thanks for the excellent thin sections. The look I gave them suggests they are nicely flat, the right thickness, not heavily plucked, and have accurate labels--three things I have been unable to get from [other] thin sectioning outfits for the last four years! Needless to say, you have my business."

"Thank you so much! You guys are absolutely THE BEST! No other place compares to the quality of your work!"

"Thank you for your service. You were recommended highly by the geologists here, several of whom said 'Just call Brian.'"

"You shouldn't do such good work, then you wouldn't be so busy and could relax a bit!"

"I received the thin sections. Thank you very much. I am very satisfied with your service and will plan to always send orders to your company. You have a very happy PhD student/customer ...."

"I fully understand that quality is very important and I prefer to wait a little more to have decent thin sections."

"Thanks for all the thin sections you've sent so far -- the quality is of course superb!"

"..congratulations to your success in running this business for 20 years. You have been keeping high-quality work as far as I know; thus I always turn to you for thin section making. Best wishes ...."

"Thanks…. And it goes without saying, that we send ‘em to you coz you do make great sections..."

"Good luck and thanks much. And continue to make excellent slides. It’s a joy to view a good slide even thought the rock is a mess. I’m sure I’m sending my share of messy volcanic rocks for thin section."

"I know that your company will do a great job ... because I have sent samples to you before and the thin sections have been very well done."

"Thank you for your careful attention to quality in thin section preparation."

"You are way too busy ... because you do such a good job!"

"I just want to say that the quality of the thin sections you made is really impressive. I had also ordered a batch from [another company] at about the same time, and they are pretty crude. Anyways, [your sections] were certainly worth the wait."

"After glancing through your website (discovered while searching the keyword "petrographic services" in google), I couldn't resist myself from sending this email with some questions, comments, exchange of ideas and experiences. Hope you don't mind. In my honest and humble opinion, this is the BEST site on petrographic sample preparation I have discovered so far with a wealth of information based on real experience!!"

"This fall I had about 30 thin-sections prepared by you, they're beautiful thanks!"

"Please don’t rush [my] samples just to keep up. I would rather wait 3 months for an excellent section than sacrifice the quality .... Take your time .... I send [my samples] to you for a reason. Thanks for the great work."

"I got [my] sections today. They are fantastic!! I have tried getting sections from these rocks made by at least 3 different commercial labs and have had problems getting a good polish because of the corundum in the rocks and the fine symplectites, but these are superbly done. Definitely worth the wait!"

"Thank you for doing such a good job on our stalagmites! The extra thickness of the sections made the growth bands easier to see and count. We have some awesome results thanks to your help."

"By the way, today one Taiwanese colleague just asked me about options of thinsection making. I mentioned your company and highly recommended it. Hope this may get you more international clients."

"Everything we've gotten so far is excellent quality. Thanks again for your hard work."

"THANK YOU!!!!!!!!....... The thin sections we have are super...."

"Last fall I sent my samples to your shop, I am working on those samples now. I have to say it is pretty good, I am totally satisfied."

"The granodiorite sections arrived ... and they're perfect."

"The most recent shipment of thin-sections has arrived safe and sound. They look excellent ... Thank you! You guys definitely do good work. Its well worth the wait."

"My sections arrived on time and I am very happy with their quality."

"Last time I ordered thin sections from you for my Master's Thesis, I could have not been more happier. They were the best ones I had ever seen and were finished quickly. The word has spread: your thin sections are now under microscopes of the students on the petrological courses in our [European] university. Our professor was suspicious at first, but was stunned when he saw the results! :)"

"By the way, in all sincerity, I feel you all make the most outstanding sections! I made my own as an undergrad, and have had experience with a number of other companies, including having to repolish the sections after arrival. Bottom-line... you all produce a truly, high-quality, probe-polished thin-section! Thank you so much for ending my long search and frustration! Even having the actual sample name engraved on the back instead of a miscellaneous lab number is great (some labs charge extra to have the real sample name engraved instead of just including it in the cost!).In the end, your sections are worth the wait! They make petrography a real treat....I mean it!!! You all have made me a customer for life. I can only reiterate all of the positive comments that I made before! Thanks again!"

"Your sections are always great. It will be nice to show students what properly made thin sections look like."

"You do nice work - I sent rocks to each of five companies and yours were definitely the best quality thin sections! Great thin sections, as always!"

"Very superb work!"

"I wish to thank you for the excellent sections; they are unsurpassed and we will continue to use your fine services in the future!"

"Congratulations for such fine work!...your prices for these high quality sections are reasonable...Again, thanks for your prompt and excellent work."

"We've been pleased with all the thin sections you've made so far -- they're invariably the proper thickness across the whole section.
So...believing that quality work should be rewarded by more business, we are sending more..."

"The last batch of sections...arrived in record time and were outstanding as usual. Keep up the great work guys."

"You would not believe what a frenzy your thin sections are making over here...my supervisor was getting calls from all over from people wanting to know where he gets his thin sections made! Everyone is so impressed! My boss just eats it up!"

"I am writing to you at the request of our Department Chairman. You have just completed an order of over 100 thin sections for the Geology Department. [The Chairman] noted the quality of your work was exceptional, and he wanted to let you know...You can look forward to hearing from us for our order for next year. Thank you very much."

"My compliments on the last batch of ten samples! They turned out wonderful and, in fact, I will be able to use photographs of some of them for a GSA poster presentation. Thanks for the good work."

"I have been very pleased in the past with the quality of the thin sections you have made. It makes a difference to those of us who spend hours at the microscope to have good sections to start with."

"I have viewed all the thin sections of the last order and BOYEE -- THEY ARE GOOD. Thanks for a job well done!"

"Dude...these sections are awesome!"

"In keeping with the high quality of the rest of [our] program we chose your laboratory to provide all the thin section work. Without exception all the thin sections are of the highest quality we have ever seen. They are truly marvelous and could almost be considered works of art. We are completely satisfied with your product and are going to recommend you to all of our colleagues and friends. We look forward to continuing to work with you on this project and many more in the future."

"I sent you an order of around 200 thin sections this summer. I was really pleased with your work; thank you so much! Much better than the place I had sent my chips before..."

"I'm the fellow who was so impressed with your quality of polished thin sections. I sent duplicate samples to several reputable thin section makers...and similar...samples to a university facility in the People's Republic of China. I specifically chose difficult samples to polish...Your prices are comparable but your quality is greatly superior. My advice to my fellow [grad] students has therefore been to send samples to you...Again, thank you for doing such a good job. I really respect people who take pride in the quality of their work."

"Thanks yet again for your help...you make the best thin sections in the world!"

"The thin sections look great...I will definitely continue to recommend you as the best polished thin section maker I've found."

"Keep up the good work...I am still browsing through the over 100 thin sections you just did for me, and am I ever delighted. I can see why your customers are so loyal -- all the sections are perfectly beautiful.Thank you!"

"...I think you deserve a raise :-)"

"I'd really like you to make [my] thin sections because you're dam good at it. The last time you were "overbooked" I sent some to another place, paid too much and the sections sucked."

"Hi Brian -- thought I would pass along a compliment that I got on some of the thin sections that you made for me previously. I am in Denmark now at some meetings and a technician here who saw some photomicrographs of my samples was quite impressed..."

"Thank you for the time and consideration you put into your thin section process. I recently received several fluid inclusion sections and they were wonderfully done."

"You remain, in my opinion, the best in the business. I have yet to see better, amigo."