Whats available for carbon fiber fabric that comes in different colors, BUT also has a colored chrome weave in it?

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f1rob	f1rob posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 237, Visits: 4.8K	You tried care reinforcements ? they have a fairly large stock
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EVILTL	EVILTL posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 43	You lost me on that one. Im new at this, so im not familiar with all the terms, and not sure how that relates to color?
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Dravis	Dravis posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 592, Visits: 1.9K	I think he means some online supplier, but my Google-fu is not strong enough to find it .. "Sapere Aude"... Dare to KNOW! The written word is the only truly efficient vehicle for transmitting a complex concept from mind to mind... 103% of all people do not understand statistics... Do not adjust our mind, theres a fault in reality :-)
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EVILTL	EVILTL posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 43	Ahhh..ok. ..I was over thinking his response
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EVILTL	EVILTL posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 43	Check out this attachment. The orange chrome skull is what I am trying to match with a carbon fiber weave. The basic oranges that I've found just don't go with it. Like I had mentioned earlier, I'd like to find a cf fabric with more of an orange-chrome look in it, but I still want the black c.f. in it also. Attachments Screenshot_2016-01-28-08-09-42.png (455 views, 1.00 MB) Edited 9 Years Ago by EVILTL
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Keep in mind that the dry fabrics may appear differently once wet out with resin. I find a lot of the colours end up slightly darker than when they were dry, especially if you've got straight black carbon backing layers behind the surface. To be honest, I don't think you will find what you are looking for. I would play around with the orange fabrics that you can get and try some resin tints. You may be able to tint the resin enough to make the orange look a bit more like what you're after, without affecting the appearance of the carbon.
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Fasta	Fasta posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 3.5K	As Hanaldo said the colours get darker. This is a part I did with the orange/carbon hybrid fabric and it went a kind of red/brown. Fastacraft Facebook page Edited 9 Years Ago by Fasta
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EVILTL	EVILTL posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 43	Your right hanaldo. i dont think theres anything out there exactly like what i want. and very good point about the resin making the colors look a bit darker. I never stopped to think about that, but makes complete sense since that rule seems to apply to other areas such as putting a clearcoat over a base and it slightly changing color perception.
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ChrisR	ChrisR posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 363, Visits: 3K	Carr Reinforcements - they do some really funky weaves, lowish minimum orders I've got a couple of samples from them that are a V-weave so if you wanted to do a bonnet with the weave mirrored on the centreline, you can do it with a single piece rather than trying to get two lined up perfectly - brilliant! They also do coloured interwoven, most colours - their website was rather out of date last time I looked but they are well worth a telephone call.
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scottracing	scottracing posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 460, Visits: 5.2K	theres an italian company that does some very cool stuff too, similar to carr reinforcements. They have a dealer in the north of the uk called cristex http://www.cristex.co.uk/ http://www.g-angeloni.com/
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