Carbon fiber neck reinforcement
Here’s one way of stiffening the thin neck of a bass – using a carbon graphite bar. Shown is the routing setup post cut, the carbon rod and the maple filler strip that goes over the top.
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What dimension is your carbon bar? Where did you get it? Thanks, Paolo.
Hi Paolo. This was a 1/4″ by 3/8″ by 24″ piece of carbon fiber square bar I got from Luthier’s Mercantile located in Heraldsburg California.
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