Cast locally.  Sounds like anothe Jetta train wreck waiting to happen.

could be wrong......

$ 135 per foot?   OUCH!    Even linear that is heavy....10' top $1350?  Someone must be paying the fabricators a lot more than I get to have anything that even resembles savings with this product.

[QUOTE]David G. wrote
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If this guy can sell @ $185 per foot plus install I need to move my shop next week.

Do you have a link to the product so we can check it out?

Just because you use similar ingredients doesn't mean the end product is the same.  If you have toured any large mfg of SS, you will see the amount of chemistry that goes into each batch.  I have been in a number of plants, large and small, and I can tell you there is little similarity between a guy pouring a few sheets to say, Aristects continuous cast plant.  Most small mfg air cure their material, while most large companies, if cell cast use autoclaves to evacuate air etc. Every step of the way the raw materials are tested, retested and watched.  If any remember, when Corian was first produced it was made with the same filler as cultured marble, which made the product very "muddy", but there is a relationship between cultured marble and solid surface,  cousins I guess.    I have seen many local producers of solid surface along the  years, most have come into and out of the business.  Today, it hardly makes sense to pour your own anymore. When you can get any of 100's of colors, delivered tomorrow, with a 10 year warranty for little more than it costs to produce your own, why take on that liability?  We have a fairly large independant SS company locally, even they admit it costs them more to make it then it would to buy it.. Sure they can offer some unique items, but, overall, it doesn't make alot of sense to make your own anymore, and the quality can't compare. 

the fabrication techniques used today, were learned from 40 years of failures.  In the beginning, butt joints, soft seams were the norm.  Then we progressed to butt seams but use a dowel and fill in the backside with glue.. This gave us the rounded inside corner... They failed.. Some still think that all these "fab rules are foolish", so they are destined to learn the hard way.  That said,  Sta Care in Wisconsin makes solid surface "blanks" that you soft seam togather, much like we did with SwanStone blanks.  They have a place in the market, but lets not confuse them with "real solid surface". They are an upgrade (maybe) from Laminate, but are not real solid surface.  Its great they do 14" with no support, mitered corners etc.. and I bet they give a long warranty... what  is that warrant worth when the company is not around any longer?  Does anyone really think all the "Big" guys have not experimented with various ways of making, fab'ing solid surface? 
Remember when SS was 3/4" ?   There are reasons things are as they are.  Fab it according to industry standards and you rarely have a failure.  I would rather let someone else pay the price for experimenting with "new and improved" solid surface techniques. 

Good Luck !

David,  I have beat this drum from the time I got on this forum.  Pour your own is a train wreck waiting to happen.  Regional company named Jetta, makes hot tubs and used to pour their own solid surface.  Original owner got out just as the tops started to fail en masse.  One consumer told me that Jetta refused to honor his warranty after three years (ten year warranty) because they were close to bankruptcy, claimed that it had cost them one millin dollars that year alone to replace tops.  I have spoken to dozens of consumers who got screwed over this deal.  Original owner is living the good life in FL as we speak.

Listen to Wags, he nailed it down.