We have been thinking about how to replicate at least the "look" of the fabric.  We thought that making a 2 part closed mould or wet laid/vacuum bagged and a paste with the cut carbon wouldn't necessarily give the desired cosmetic effect, it would likely be too "black". So we think another approach would be to lay up some resin in the mould as a thin gelcoat to the tacky but firm stage and apply a layer of the chopped fibres that way, then layup from there.  You could skip the gelcoat and use hair spray or a spray tack to stabilise the fibres on the mould surface and see how that pans out. 

Could certainly give a different "look" to the parts if you can find the right balance to give the right cosmetic effect.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

you got chooped carbon?

Hi "Tomdesign"


I'll try to make some cloth ... I made something that looks a bit like the stuff in the first picture by accident .. got a lot of loose cut off CF fibers messed up with some Cytec spray fix .. and it looked a lot like the images you have shown ..  You could try to experiment with some spray fix or even base-coat cured to a tack, then "mess up" the fibres on the surface and use peel-ply to keep it flattened down .. then coat on top??

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ou ok. Let me know about your attempt on that