Here’s How Carbon Fiber Makes Guitars Better

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Carbon fiber musical instruments are coming to the music stores. But do they belong in music studio, and should this material be in your woodshop workshop. Composite materials carry claims of legendary lightness and strength. Violin bows and violin cases now come in carbon fiber. Shapechanginginstruments wanted to know how craftsmen are using carbon fiber in their musical instruments.


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Best Musical Instruments on WordPress

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Holidays are a good time to catch up with the family. Here at Shapechanginginstruments.com it was a time to look around our wordpress family to see what types of musical instruments people are making. Guitar makers continue to post beautiful photos that make you say ‘Wow’

RDS Guitars has a nice restoration project going with an acoustic guitar.

Ayers guitar is cranking out instruments from his shop. Including this gem of an acoustic guitar.

James Radcliffe types up a piece about why he makes music.

Material Alchemy posts his latest beautiful gutiars

LA String player provides a quick summary of violin acoustics.

5 things to look for when buying a ukelele

Peach Tree started a series on guitar luthiers

Try tunning your A-String to 432 Hz instead of 440 Hz.

This origami bass is tremendous. Somebody please 3D print this thing!

RimbaTubes rocks out to PVC tube jam.

Finally, check out the world of Black Midi. 3-minute midi songs with over 100k notes. Keep making beautiful things in upcoming year. We are still impressed with our last trip circumnavigating the world of music makers on wordpress.