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Composite Guitar Neck, I need Help with the design.

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By Eldon H - 3/15/2015 3:51:51 PM

This guitar neckuses Carbon fiber as an exoskeleton with a lightweight wood core, such aswillow or basswood as a compression medium for the core. The finalouter face of the neck is a thin 1/32” veneer of hard wood. Therecan be as much as 200 pounds of pull on a guitar neck.

I've attached my design


Myquestion is do I have the design right? Where can it be improved?
By Eldon H - 3/23/2015 2:33:44 PM

Yes ,No truss Rod. Well I hope.

Attached is a previous attempt at this without a truss rod.

Here I simply hollowed out a guitar neck and added carbon and a willow core.

After six months of use this neck is bowing a little more than anyone would like.

Per the previous post.  This might be because I did not complete the carbon Box on the top of the neck?

Also I now believe that the vertical carbon in the center is use less.

I am open to all suggestions.