My son works for a high-end specialty meats manufacturer. Every now and then they will have a customer tour their plant. At the end of the tour, they lay out a series of different meats so that the customer can try them. He asked me if I could create a large charcuterie board with their logo on it. It’s a 3-color logo. The material is Corian (solid surface) and the logo sets about 0.150 below the surface. I then covered the logo with Super Clear 2-part epoxy. After a lot of sanding and polishing it’s being delivered tomorrow. The board size is 28.5"x24".
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Looks great! Where did you pick up the corian? I’ve looked for small pieces but I’ve not had much luck finding interesting patterns.
Maybe try some local cabinet shops and ask for sink cutouts and offall.
I picked up a couple granite sink cutouts to use as surface plates.
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Yeah granite I can get all day long. Folks are literally giving it away around me 
Corian though, not so much. Asking the fab shops is a good idea 
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Tyler, Todd is right on. I’m fortunate in that my neighbor manufacturers counter tops. What’s nice is that he doesn’t do stone, solid surface is his high end product. Be aware that Corain is a brand name for solid surface. There are about a half dozen brands for solid surface so ask a shop for any solid surface material, not Corian specifically. A majority of my work is using solid surface. Like Todd says ask for sink cut outs. Also, create a relationship with the shop. Every now and then the shop owner wants to really impress a homeowner so he will ask me to use a piece to create a tapered grove drain board or cutting board. He actually pays me $50 for making the drain board. If interested in how I make the the drain board let me know and I will provide details.
Here are just a couple of examples of a wedding plaques that I make.
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Gorgeous work, that flower carve is something I can strive for 
Solid surface it is
For the drain board I imagine you rough clear the slots and finish with a single pass of a ball nose 
Or maybe just run the ball down and it cuts cleanly enough without the initial clear?
Do you do any jigs to tilt the workpiece or just let the machine z handle the ramp down?
You got me really wanting to find a source for this stuff now 
The flower was obviously cut separate and super glued to the plaque. It took the machine over 5 hours to cut the rose using 3D but there was no finishing work when it was done.
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Attached is the file for making the tapered drying board. While attached is a single file, you need to split it into two separate files based on the two Groups. The toolpaths are divided into two separate Groups so just Disable a group when not using it. The process is to elevate one end 1/4" while cutting the groves. Then lower the piece flat to the table when cutting the name and cutting it out.
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