That is an interesting anecdote about starting with cases and realizing the CF potential for guitar design. Thanks for sharing. I'm less concerned about exactly how the sausage is made, only that it is tasty. The engineer in me is always curious about the process, of course. But I speak as as a player.... not a builder of guitars.
The ignorant (or to be kinder, the less informed) out there will sometimes derisively refer to carbon fiber guitars as "plastic" or maybe fiberglass. But a friend who has built his own guitars and visited the Emerald factory tells me that they spend at least 30 hours of labor on each guitar. That is more hours than Taylor or Martin spend on any individual production instrument, given the CNC processes in their factories.
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