Originally Posted by
Kevinti
Woven Fiber
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Not woven fiber.
Originally Posted by
PeteHski
I think what you are seeing there is the use of unidirectional carbon fibre, rather than the more basic bidirectional weave.
No, what you're seeing in either picture is simply two alternatives for the
cosmetic layer, the first one a weave and the second one a random pattern*. The actual
structural carbon in both examples is
underneath the cosmetic layer, and is almost certainly unidirectional fiber...which looks like neither. Unidirectional fiber typically looks pretty benign/boring; sometimes you can determine the direction of the fibers, but if they are fine enough it just looks like matte gray plastic.
*Modulus Graphite, the company that invented the use of carbon fiber for guitar and bass necks, refers to that particular random pattern, the one that looks like "burnt MDF plywood" [sic] as
KLD...an acronym for One Thousand Ladies Dancing.