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I was talking to a hockey playing friend and he was lamenting the cost of carbon fiber hockey sticks (~$300.) and the fact that they break. It got me wondering if the handle part of a broken carbon fiber hockey stick could be useful at all for guitar making. Has anyone tried sawing up one of these things into pieces small enough to be used to re-enforce guitar necks?

Pat

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Salvage it and toss it in your raw material box.... you could use it for tools or jigs, guitar parts - whatever!

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That material plays hell with saw blades, so cutting it up might be more expensive than just buying what you need.

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If your going to cut that stuff on a regular basis , you need a carbide grit blade . NOT a toothed blade . The blade is smooth and has carbide grit all the way around the cutting edge . Probably more cost than the purchase of carbon fibre when needed .

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If you are specifically looking at neck reinforcement,I would think that a carbon fiber golf shaft might do the trick.

I'm starting to think it's a bad idea all around and better just to buy the right size material to start with.

Pat

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those that watch things happen,
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Graphite sticks always break on the pass across the blue line on the power play. If you put a piece of that in your guitar, the neck may snap part way through Stompin' Tom's " The Hockey Song ".

Alex

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I have machined up a few carbon fiber bars for some mando necks from scrap carbon fiber bars we use for equipment parts.

They machine quite easily with high speed steel milling cutters. That's the good part.

Messy. Oh, boy do I mean messy. The waste that gets cut away is a fine powder almost like graphite dust. And the glass fibers work their way into your skin and you'll itch for a week. Respiration is a must if you want to keep it out of your lungs.

I'm only reducing the stock from about 1/4" down to .200. I can't imagine starting with a hockey stick.