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    My inlay experience is with pearl and shell. Can anyone tell me if they used corian or other solid surface materials as inlay stock to ad to a color pallet?
    Let me know and thanks again
john

It's a great, great material. Lots of colors to choose from too.
I thickness it to about .06", and treat exactly like shell. It can be engraved too. It is fragile at times at this thickness, and it can crack, but it tends to be flexible. It sands out better than pearl at the same grit.

Good luck!

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You can also bend it with heat. Now I have no idea how that applies to using it as inlay, unless you want to maybe use it as purfling, or in a rosette etc. There are tons of colors available too. You'll have to pay a good $$ for a box of samples, but you'll see just how many colors there are these days. I have a friend who is a fabricator... I should mooch some cutoff pieces sometime and try it myself.

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Actually, Don, the price for samples isn't all that bad. Go to the Corian Samples webiste and click on the color you like. A purchasing screen comes up. Price for a 2"x2" square is $1.00, a 4"x4" square is $2.00 (the 4x4 is a better deal -- 4x the material for 2x the price). A cutting board's worth of material is only $25.00. It cuts easily with a standard bandsaw blade, too.

Best,

Michael

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If there's a top shop in your area, go with a box of Krispy Kremes (or Dunkin's I suppose if that's all you can get) and chat with one of the workers...at the shop near me, there are always cutoffs from backsplashes and damaged pieces around for free! I've used it for nut and saddle stock, but have since gone only to bone hoping to improve my sound....and Don's right about the color availability...it's amazing how many there are!

Larry

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   I allready got about 50 lbs of the stuff and wanted to see what anyone elses experience was. Looks like I am going to have me some fun
john