I have a repair project on my bench. Its a guitar that has a broken neck.
Repairing the guitar neck wasnt that hard, but I am considering reinforcing it somehow, and I thought about wrapping the neck in carbon fibre.
The big problem I have with this is the finishing it where the guitar neck meets the fretboard. This guitar has a plastic binding around the fretboard like this....
As you can see, white plastic binding (it has those black dots on to mark the location along the neck) is glued alongside the fretboard, which is made of wood. Most likely these are attached with CA/Superglue before finishing the guitar with Lacquer.
My problem is that if I wrap the neck in carbon fibre, I will need to secure it somehow, and the binding may make it difficult to but up against the edge of the . I dont really know that much about the resin used to attach carbon fibre to a shape and if it wouldnt just come loose, especially because there will be some movement in the neck..
which brings me on to my second question. Guitar necks move and the carbon fibre would need to move with it, so how strong is the resin to make the part solid? Will it act as an adheisive? is the idea of vibration and movement going to cause problems for carbon fibre?
Carbon fibre seems to be a material that guitar repairers and makers could use, and theres a lot of questions here I know, but I am keen on having a go at not only repairing a guitar with CF, but integrating it in future repair work, depending on how reliable it will be. can anyone help?
Jeff