Hi Guys, 

I had thought about this, to me I think those iPhone cases and such have too many small little clips and snap together areas to solely make out of carbon fiber. I I guess it could be done but it would be tough. Thas more of a "Plastic Injection" project.

 

If I were you I would buy a blank case and give a shot at the laminating kit.

 Here's a link to it, Let me know How it goes I need a case for Iphone4 and love Carbon fiber. Just do like the back panel/ don't try to force it around the edges yet "2d" style


Carbon Fiber Laminating Kit





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Hi Chris

I too am making a carbon fibre iphone case but there is a big problem that I came across. The carbon is actually an RF shield. I'm still going to try to make a cover for myself but doing it as a business might be a problem. Nobody wants a cover that drops 3 bars of signal. Please keep this in mind as you go forward. You'll notice there are a few carbon covers out there already but none of them cover the iphone antennas with carbon. iPad might be different as the antennas are internal but then again it might be the same crushing, humiliating, expensive defeat that I face with the iphone.

Hi Adam,


Have you considered using black diolen? this as it is not conductive (nor is epoxy) so will not cause the same 'Faraday cage' type electromagnetic sheilding that you are getting with the carbon, I would advise if you are looking to sell them commercialy, to use carbon fibre on the back plate and diolen around the perimeter, you can the still sell is as a genuine carbon-fibre composite and let your competitors work out why yours doesn't drop signal! Plus diolen is great from an impact point of view!

Never except defeat!

Paul Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical

Hey Paul

I've never heard of it diolen but I'll look into it, thanks. There is a cover made by a company called carbone that sounds like what you're talking about. It has a nice carbon back plate and a plasticy looking surround. My main goal with this project though was to make a cover that was thinner and lighter than anything else on the market. I bought an iPhone because I like the look and so I don't want some big chunky cover hiding it. I can't imagine making one out of two materials without it getting larger and losing the shape of the phone.

I'd also like to apologise to Chris as it kind of sounded like he should give up the idea. I didn't mean to sound like that, sorry.

Also... the iPhone 4S drops only 1 bar for me. The 4 dropped 3 bars.

Also... the iPhone 3GS covers I used to make didn't seem to cause any problems. I assume the iPads would be closer to those in antenna design.

There is hope!

use this carbon from ec called light 90gsm plain weave carbon fibre fabric , i think it will do a perfect job but i never tried it i had a sample of it only

here is the link and also ask paul about it ,hes the expert

here is the link for it

Carbon Fibre Plain Weave 1k 90g 1m Wide

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