Carbon fiber is expensive. Too expensive for me to screw up and have to throw it away! At $25-30 a square foot, this stuff is pricey. And besides being expensive, it can be challenging to work with if you don’t have the right tools and knowledge. Luckily none of the tools needed to work with carbon fiber sheets on your project are exotic or expensive, and the knowledge is something you should be able to pick up quick enough to keep from wasting a bunch of time and money on ruined carbon panels.
In this video Tim McAmis shows just how to work with the stuff, along with some tricks and tips and a run down of the tools you’ll want to have on hand. I have to say, after watching the video I feel pretty confident that I could use this stuff to build some cool interior pieces without wasting more than about $20 worth of carbon at most.
See what you think.
Tim’s doing a nice series here. It’ll be helpful to a lot of folks.
I’ve been in the advanced composites field for almost 40 years now, built the Space Shuttle, B-1B bomber, lots of other aerospace stuff, as well as Hennessey’s Viper composite line, a few Ferrari carbon parts, as well as things for John Force, John Lingenfelter, and many others. McAmis, by the looks of it, is building the best quality stuff the automotive aftermarket has seen. (Besides my stuff, that is!)