Anyone used GRAPHITE neck/s on their guitars?

[Backerhacker]

 

Graphite has actually, the similar molecular structure as diamonds. It must have some durability on it. Alternative material used for maple or mahogany or any other wood material. Anyone used GRAPHITE neck/s on their guitars? or bodies? Sound? feel? weight compared to wood? Maybe a news good for environmentalist. I say, some trees were not cut in vain, because they were made out of some or most of the finest axes we love and cherish. Edit: "same" to "similar"

 

 

 

Graphite is a polymorph of the element carbon. diamond is another

polymorph. The two share the same chemistry, carbon, but have very

different structures and very different properties. Diamond is the

hardest mineral known to man, Graphite is one of the softest. Diamond is

an excellent electrical insulator, Graphite is a good conductor of

electricity. Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, Graphite is a very good

lubricant. Diamond is usually transparent, Graphite is opaque. Diamond

crystallizes in the Isometric system and graphite crystallizes in the

hexagonal system. Graphite is the stable form of carbon. All diamonds at

or near the surface of the Earth are currently undergoing a transformation

into Graphite. This reaction is extremely slow. All of the differences

between graphite and diamond are the result of the difference in their

respective structures. Graphite has a sheet-like structure where the atoms

all lie in a plane and are only weakly bonded to the graphite sheets above

and below. Diamond has a framework structure where the carbon atoms are

bonded to other carbon atoms in three dimensions as opposed to two in

graphite. The carbon-carbon bonds in both minerals are quite strong, but

it is the application of those bonds that make the difference.

 

Graphite is one of the softest minerals (a very slippery lubricant) and is

the high-strength component in composites used to build automobiles,

aircraft, and golf club shafts and many other products. It is the weakly

bonded sheets that slide by each other to yield the slipperiness or

softness. Yet when those sheets are rolled up into fibers, and those

fibers twisted into threads, the true strength of the bonds becomes

apparent. The threads are molded into shape, and held in place by a binder

(such as an epoxy resin). The resulting composites have some of the

highest strength-to-weight ratios of any materials (excluding diamond

crystals and carbon nano tubes).

[Guitzilla]

 

How was it, installing the neck? Was it hard?

 

 

 

Not any harder than installing a wood neck. Anyone that can use a screwdriver could have installed it.