Hi, I wonder if you can give me some advice on fixings for carbon fibre strips.

I'm woking on a project at the moment which requires me to provide a hole in one end of a cbrbon fibre strip to act as a 'fixed' fixing point for a screw to go through and a slot at the other end to allow for movement in the finished article as it needs to retain a degree of flexibility in use. I'm undecided about width and thickness of the strip I will need but would appreciate some advice if there is a minimum you would not recommend going below to avoid the risk of cracking or splitting whilst drilling the hole.

For the slotted end would a router be suitable for cutting the slot out of the material? Also, I am new to using carbon fibre and wondder if there are any perticular health and safety issues in cutting the material - i would be using a mask and protective glasses as a matter of course, but would I need to consider anything other than that?

As an alternative, I am also thinking about possibly using a solid rod of small diameter as this would make some other design issues easier to deal with, but I am a bit stuck when it comes to figuring out how this might be fixed - is there any sort of end connector (see attached rough sketch) available which could be fixed to the end of a rod to allow it to be screw-fixed in place?

I'd be grateful for any guidance you might be able to give