threeapples- I was trying to match existing granite in my kitchen, but the only match was 2cm, which was thinner than the existing countertops. When I told my fabricator that I was concerned about the seam in the middle from a built-up edge, he said: "No problem, we'll cut all the pieces at a 45 degree angle and the seams will be along the edges where you can't see them." Take a look at these photos and see what you think: He even showed me samples where he had done this with highly figured marble, and he just matched the cut pieces at the seam line so it looked like the pattern wrapped over the edge and down the sides as if it were a solid 4cm slab. If you can find a fabricator who has the skill to do this properly, it's amazing, and they can give you whatever perceived thickness you want without obvious seams.

I went to Home Depot to look at their edges, and I must admit, I did see that line on other samples, but the laminate samples were smooth. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?

These are my pics of my countertops placed Friday June 22, 2018. I cried looking at these seams. It looks so cheap. Fabricator explains that's the way it comes. I explained that I shouldn't be able to see the seams so clearly. It looks so unprofessional. They ended up taking them back to their warehouse. In hopes they say if it is quality control will try and fix it just to make it look better. Otherwise I will have to pay an additional fee for them to come out again to install. I just don't know what to do and if still looks the same. This is the first time I've replaced my counters in 24 years. I don't and can't live with it. looking at this for another 24 years. It looks so cheap and it really was not it's a lot of money to me. I hope fingers crossed that they will fix this problem. They never told me that there would be such seams. I thought the edges were done by a machine and it would be all one piece. I have read up on this and now understand there are seams. But now I do know that they should not look like this. If they are good fabricator you shouldn't be able to see them so clearly. I will find out next week what happens.

You can ask them not to make the edge "overly" eased. I think I specified slightly or softly eased, or something to that effect. Our granite edges are definitely not sharp edges, they are eased, but far from as rounded as some I'd seen. They had samples/examples of edges in the fabricator's office, and I showed them which "version" we preferred, and which we disliked. FWIW, when the guy was here templating, we discussed outer corners (eased-square; they were able to "soften" a couple that were too pointy, ever so slightly after install), but somehow we forgot to discuss the one inner corner in our kitchen. It was deeply radiussed, which we didn't want. They rectified it onsite (counter was installed at this point). Not ideal, not perfect, but it can be done. Other things to be sure to discuss before fabrication would be sink reveal, sink corners (ours should have been more square than they are IMO), and depth of counter in front of the sink.