I have also found it more forgiving. Maybe there's more than one type of Corian-material, and I just happen to get the softer stuff? I know Corian is just a brand name.
Hi Tony,
There are quite a few Solid Surface materials out there, and some of them like Staron, Hi-Macs, Wilsonart/Gibraltar and a few others are almost identical to Corian in the way they behave when turning and gluing. These are all acrylics.
There are some others, Avonite comes to mind that make a Polyester type of solid surface material. Some of these can be quite nice for pen making, but many have different levels of translucency which would require painting. They tend to be more brittle and chippy than the acrylics, but not too bad to work with.
If you have a large solid surface fabricator anywhere nearby, they throw away more pen sized scraps than you can imagine. They might let you have bunch.
Bill