Carbon Fiber Acoustics?

HotTinRoof

Has been a long time since posting.

I’m living in humid Florida now and am curious if any of you have played any Carbon Fiber acoustics? I would love something I can play outside without worries (i’m paranoid just leaving the house with my Zwinakis gitane let alone sitting outside with it for any amount of time. YouTube videos i’ve watched sound promising - Irish builder Emerald guitars are truly making some gorgeous designs. Any experience here? Has anybody played GJ on one?

thanks for your opinion

https://youtu.be/u7uHA_b3p2g

...punching away on my ipad’s Keyboard...

Buco

Well, the guitar on the video sure sounds sweet and wonderful. The player has a part in it obviously. It's really about whether you care or not about such things. One of my favorite players in the genre, Remi Harris, puts out videos on wide variety of guitars: GJ, archtop, flattops, 12 strings, LP, Strat...they all sound awesome. When I asked him about it he said what he likes about is that every guitar informs his playing a little differently.

Lango-Django

I was talking to a classical guitarist a few years ago who told me that his new guitar’s top was carbon fibre covered with a thin wood veneer.

This kind of technology seems promising to me, and it makes me wonder what a great GJ guitar builder like Bob Holo could do with it?

Unfortunately, the above video clip didn’t seem to do a real good job of demonstrating all the different kinds of sounds that might be possible...?

juanderer

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/98540#Comment_98540

Michael Collins did something like this with the material nomex several years ago. I still fantasize about that guitar every now and then - I love the rosette on it. There's a video of him giving the instrument a test drive at the bottom of the following blog entry:

http://collinsguitar.com/double-top/

HotTinRoof

I spent the last week absorbed in learning about these and decided to jump in with both feet and placed an order with Emerald.