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Originally Posted by AsianGuy
Can anyone describe the difference between the all carbon fiber construction vs. the hybrid carbon-fiber/glass-fiber construction? Be it sound, durability, or even feel?
Also an additional side question, can these things get scratched (I’ve always been told carbon fiber doesn’t dent…it shatters)? I’m not so much worried about minor cosmetic damage, but I’ve been told from friends who work with carbon fiber that the splitters are insanely painful and even harder to resolve medically. I guess I’m curious just how ‘carbon fiber’ these carbon fiber guitars are.
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I've found that given the same model structure, WS1000 for example, the "all carbon fiber" models tend to have more crystalline tone and ring to them compared to the combination carbon fiber/fiberglass models which usually sound darker (less open).
RainSong and likely all carbon-fiber guitars have the same general type of finish as Taylor guitars: polyurethane. This finish can scratch and get dinged as would a wooden guitar's finish.
Carbon-fiber guitars are formed by imbedding the carbon-fiber cloth in resin. RainSong guitars tend to be lighter in weight because RainSong uses pre-impregnated carbon-fiber cloth which is more uniform compared to the slather-on-the-resin and scrape the excess off methods of some other makers. So, because of the resin binding the carbon fiber, if hit with a forceful blow, the carbon fiber will not shatter all over the place but be contained pretty much to the guitar structure.