I am thinking of making a Carbon Fibre Harp.
I am having a problem with how to make the neck and column.
If you don't know, this is shaped like a curly number seven. It needs to be very strong as it has about 500 Kg of pull across it from the strings. I would like to make it in one piece. The sound box fits between the ends of the seven but this is relatively easy.

I was thinking of making it in a mould made of sheets of MDF laid flat with the cavity cut out of the middle sections.

I would make the piece by wrapping layers of Carbon Fibre around sections of expanded polystyrene so that it would end up with an internal box section support structure.
I would also include a bicycle inner tube so that when the top is bolted on to the mould I could inflate this and force the piece into the corners.
I was wondering if I could laminate using infusion resin and include a length of spiral tube between layers leading out of the mould so surplus resin would be forced out. I think the laminating resin would be too thick to do this.

Does anyone think this would work?

Brian.

i have experience by 2 sides mold by presing each other and trust me part comes very hard but problem is that air not go out and part is bad cometic look also some places change color. from 10 parts good been with straight pattern and around to good look like 2 not more, so i suggest vacuuming or infusion or do pre preg with autoclave self made.