This stock design is rapidly becoming one of my favorite ambedextrous designs of all time for several reasons.
Carbon fibre wood laminate.
Carbon fiber sheets laminates we are a leading manufacturer of high quality sandwich panels and laminates manufactured in a range of composite materials including structural foam honeycomb carbon fiber and fiberglass.
An extra set of hands is helpful with this.
For pure shootability it is a hard stock to beat at any price.
With everything pre cut you can start layering the resin and carbon.
Pick your resin carefully.
The hi tech material is wasteful to produce and difficult to recycle.
Excess waste for landfill.
In our belite ultralight aircraft we occasionally make and use a carbon fiber plywood laminate.
Cut each piece so the ends meet with no overlap.
This makes a very nice looking and strong panel yet is very thin.
Creating a one off part can be quite expensive to design mold and produce in carbon fiber.
The amazing thing with peel ply is you can pour resin on top of it and roll or squeegee to saturate the carbon fiber more if needed.
Laminating carbon fiber is no different than fiberglass or other reinforcements.
First wrap the shaft with the fiber and cut it to size.
More and more carbon fiber is being used not only as a structural but a cosmetic element in todays high end cars.
To become the strong light composite material industries love.
Flatten the carbon to the deck and use the roller to get the air bubbles out of the material.
It is capable of holding a lot of load when suspended across a frame for instance a seat bottom.
As for applying the carbon fiber and resin.
Carbon fiber laminating aka skinning is a great cost alternative to add carbon fiber elements to your vehicle.
Lay the carbon fiber cloth onto the wetted deck.
It is identical in form to our ground breaking m50 carbon fiber layup stocks with the warmth and beauty of wood.
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You will want more that 1 layer and you will want to try to offset the weave on each layer for more strength.
Practice learning how to laminate carbon fiber with fiberglass which is a fraction of the cost.