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?

Thanks, Dravis

I intend to start soon.

First I'll shape the Willow core and heat bend the outer wood veneer.

I'll bend several veneers while I'm at it.

Then rout the willow core down allowing for the 3 outer layers of carbon fiber.

And then further route out for the 3 capping layers of carbon fiber,which are the first layup.

Then come the 3 outer layers of carbon that also bond into the carbon tube.

I've seen where other builders after the room temperature cure, string up their neck under tension

and place it in the sun for a month. I'm trying to understand this practice??