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?

I'm also using a 1 1/8” carbon fiber square tube as the neck post.

This is the fiber that I am using with the West system epoxy.

Thanks a bunch.

• Tensile Strength -   512 ksi / 3,530 MPa    

     

• Tensile Modulus -   33.4 Msi / 230 GPa    

     
• Density - 0.064 lbs/in^3 / 1.76 g/cm^3    
  
  

• Tensile Strength -   270 ksi / 1,860 MPa    

     
• Tensile Modulus - 20.0 Msi / 135 GPa
  
  

Howwould oven curing affect the stability of this layup?

Myultimate goal is to build a light weight neck, that stable enoughthat a truss rod is unnecessary.