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I see many are using carbon tubing for neck block bracing to the waist and /or from the waist to the tail block. Other than a weight issue...are say 1/4 or 5/16 maple and walnut dowels being used for this purpose? I have about 200... 3' dowels that are used in my shop for everything including cleaning my ears.
Seems to me that they would have the structure necessary to do the job.

Too late for current build...but looking at reinforcement on the next.
Kent (the Beaver) Bailey

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Kent,

I used birch dowels for this on an OM I built 2 years ago. Everything seems fine. That guitar is very stable. It holds it's tune very well and the action is very consistant through seasonal temp and RH changes. I really like these trusses in use and would recommend building with them.
I would not even think of arguing that C.F. wouldn't be a superior material in this situation, but I could be convinced that C.F. is overkill and a hardwood dowel would be sufficent.

Steve