Shannon_WI: Sorry, but when sinks are strapped in place, they become the vertical reinforcement for the front sink rail. Tops of any material have little flexural strength, no matter the width. This front rail is 2 3/8" wide, the sink is strapped, and I'll dance a Conga line across it anytime:

They put the little machine on the full seam to make it tight, but I still thought it was wide. The other one at the sink was just pushed together by hand. I think they are a little wide as well. Yes, there must be a chip at the edge of that full same. I feel like they need to repair the chip and then do the seam. The black places were unexpected because we looked at this on slab Smith, but you cannot see the side of the stone. That is just part of the natural stone. There are some other black Crystal spots in the slabs in general. We Did the seam at the sink because we were working with two slabs and had to get everything out of that. I went in and looked at it on the computer and it looked great. I was surprised about the two little black crystal things, but there was just no way to see those on the computer. They are not some kind of weird filler. I don’t want to mess with them and try to chip them out because I feel like that will cause more problems. Bad luck that they just happened to be where we were matching up seams!

Thank you Joseph for taking the time to respond. It is encouraging to hear! Now I have to convince my fabricator to fix it.

We decided to change it - with grain all in one direction. Three reasons - We never envisioned a bookmatch, it wasn't a true bookmatch - just an attempt, and - most importantly - we wanted the focal point to be outside the two picture windows over the seam. The "bookmatch" drew your eyes there instead. The fabricator re-did it at no cost since they had not consulted us.