Any Carbon Guitars Designed to Sound Like Certain Tonewoods?

[pcutt]

Since carbon guitars lend themselves to being engineered with respect to vibration, structure, etc. to achieve certain sounds, are any of them specifically designed to sound like certain tonewoods? In the world of wood guitars there's no shortage of discussion on the sounds of spruce, cedar, mahogany, etc. For example, are there carbon guitars that are specifically designed to "sound like koa" or some other wood?

[Rodger Knox]

Originally Posted by pcutt

Since carbon guitars lend themselves to being engineered with respect to vibration, structure, etc. to achieve certain sounds, are any of them specifically designed to sound like certain tonewoods? In the world of wood guitars there's no shortage of discussion on the sounds of spruce, cedar, mahogany, etc. Are there carbon guitars that are specifically designed to "sound like koa" or some other wood?

There's lots of discussion, but very little real data. In order to make carbon sound like wood, it would be helpful to know why wood sounds the way it does. (What makes koa sound like koa?)

[Ted @ LA Guitar Sales]

Originally Posted by pcutt

Since carbon guitars lend themselves to being engineered with respect to vibration, structure, etc. to achieve certain sounds, are any of them specifically designed to sound like certain tonewoods? ...

Building a CF guitar that sounds like wood would be difficult enough without specifying which tone wood they are copying, so the answer in no.

FYI, as of this writing, no builder of carbon guitars has a guitar that sounds like wood, in fact, only one is even interested in the idea, Blackbird, and Joe is not using carbon fiber for the project.