Hi sayde..

I haven't seen this specifically either, but I like the idea. It would seem to me that butcher block around the sink wouldn't wear well, with all the splashing that goes on. Sorry I don't have any experience with this other than I remember how water damaged my cabinets in my old kitchen were underneath my sink..I just don't think water and wood do well with one another..I hope you get some great advice on this!

KA:)

I absolutely LOVE this idea and think it would be stunning and useful. Form and function.

Very inkeeping ( is there such a word?) with the look you are going for as well

This would be a super look -- very pretty. I do see some practical issues which may explain why it's not done more often.

Chief among those would be the seam between the marble and bb at 18" from the sink -- prime wet workspace. Guidelines usually allow 24" for general workspace on each side. So there is a seam & water issue there.

Some fabricators don't want to do narrow scribed bibs for sinks due to a greater chance of breakage during transport and install. Not that they won't but they tend not to want to.

I have an undermounted ss sink in marble and after a year I do have small dings on the inside front edge. They can be sanded away but I've left them. We use it very lightly and were away for 3 months this year but they happen -- though perhaps some will post and say they don't have any. Other factors to be accepted might be water, soap or oil etches around the sink.

But we do love our marble and that would look great IMO

Thanks so much for the comments and for the image-- thanks so much beckysharp! Just what I needed to see.

I'm trying to decide between a lighter marble --French Vanilla -- and a darker brown one -- Emperador. The local marble place has already said that they could do this application and we will be doing the butcher block pieces ourselves. Just need to make a final decision. It really helps to have the input and the photo -- thanks so much!

You might consider making the marble wider (one side or both sides), and having runnels cut. That would insure that water runs toward the sink, and not the BB. It would add some expense, but you will save by looking for a remnant.

Here's an old thread about runnels, mostly soapstone or granite, but it may give you some info.

Here is a link that might be useful: sink runnels