Wood Bed Strips
 

I am heading to Nevada in a month and want to order my wood bed strips in polished stainless to bring back from there and have narrowed my purchase down to Bed Wood and Parts out of Kentucky or Mar-K ( I know they are board vendors) and am wondering if any one has ordered bed strips from either of these places and whether their experience has been positive or negative.

After seeing the pic of Garys' ( GS1969) bed wood on the Fort Sale page I am going to go with White Oak for my truck and hope it turns out as well as his.

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i ordered mine from classic parts yesterday polished stainless steel for swb $169, they are out of kansas city

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I ordered mine from Mar-K. Probably one of the best transactions I have made with a vendor. Great folks up there with outstanding products. All of my bed parts fit perfectly, every single hole lined up exactly. Well packaged too.

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Any body

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I'm looking for a bed wood kit so I did a price comparison for a short fleet using polished stainless strips and hardware with Oak wood. Classic Parts is $170 cheaper than Mar-K. That's a hell of a savings. Can someone attest to the quality of the Classic parts????

Classic Parts:
Bed strips #07-468 $169.95
Bed wood #07-157 $274.95
Bed bolt kit #08-217A $79.95
Total $524.85

110076 - Bed Strips - Polished Stainless 1 SET $180.00 $180.00
110212 - Bed Wood - Oak with Standard Mounting Holes 1 SET $399.00 $399.00
110309 - Bolt Kits - Polished Stainless 1 KIT $115.00 $115.00
Total: $694.00

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I ordered from Mar K. Everything was fine. I failed to physically count the hardware that I had received. Finished the bed went to install it and I was short 4 bolts and nuts. In their defense there was a note to count all the hardware and check for damages and immediately call. Well by the time I figured out the shortage was a month later. I sent them an email which their reply was basicly I waited too long. I know it was my fault for not counting each and every bolt. But figured since I had bought front panel, tail gate, bedsides, strips and bed wood they would have sent me 4 polished replacement bolts and nuts. (more than $2,000) So count everything even the hardware immediately after you receive it. Don't assume like I did, a packaged non opened bag is complete. Everything I got was top notch stuff and well packed. I would order from them again.

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Here is a guy in Mo that sells on ebay. Has 100% approval rating. I haven't ordered from him but his prices and auctions and buy it now and prices are cheaper than most.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevr...item5885d976ba

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I would use Mar-k..The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of cheap price is gone Gospel according to St Paul

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That is sooooooo true. I love the way it sounds, like it's one of the ten commandments or something

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did that include Mar-K's 10% off and free shipping? I have purchased a few of their items and will continue.. (MADE IN USA!)

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Excellent point! I wondered why the Mar-K wood is so much higher than the other guys. I see why, the shipping cost is baked into the wood price. Their prices of hardware is higher but that 10% would cover it.

With that said, I will buy Mar-K. Thanks for pointing out the shipping savings!

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My bed looks like that!!....and its mark k stuff and it fit and looks great. I ordered my stuff through my local resto guy...

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Ah damn! The 10% coupon expired Jan 31st!

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Bought my oak from classic parts, it was very nice quality and it was the best deal around, I was close enough to drive down and pick it up though. My strips and other hardware came from Mar-K, great people to deal with. Shipping the wood could get expensive, check with your local suppliers/vendors first

Jeff

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they will have another one, i'd PM them on here and ask...

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Thanks for all the input guys/gals. I will call Mar-K this week and see what kind of deal I can get from them. Mar-K is aboard vendor and I'd like to support the board vendors.

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Purchased my SS strips for my 68 SWB thru Mar-k.
They look great!

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We ordered the wood from Mar-K and the wood was great. It came with all the holes predrilled and since we are installing it now I will know here in a few days if everything lines up. The only issue we had is that the wood was a little thick for the angles that were on the truck. But with a little extra sanding and tlc we made it fit fine. I'm glad I read the other posts on this thread. Our bolts were delivered on Thursday and guess I have to go count them now lol.

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I expected the missing Mar-K bolt story would end..."who'd of expected they would send off four bolts with a hearty chuckle and no questions asked!"
It's funny that you can hear a dozen good things but just one minor criticism and their reputation slides, at least to me. It goes to show how treating a customer above and beyond the call of duty is its own reward and not going that extra mile will sometimes cost a lot more than shipping 4 bolts.

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I kinda hafta agree with this....they wouldn't send 4 bolts after a customer spent over $2000???

Being that this is the only negative thing I have heard about them, I would still buy from them again. I bought their stake pocket caps, and they are top notch quality and fit...you can tell they are made in the USA.

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I purchased my bed kit from Brothers, whom in turn aquired through MAR-K, so I am assumming they support allot of the major vendors that are out there. The kit was delivered in great shape and I was totaly saticefied. I recommend MAR-K.
R/
Billy