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i MADE CARBON FIBER LAYUP ON FEW PARTS ON MY X!

apollo607

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Hello again forum, long time no posting.

Well, just to show a couple of pics of my first carbon fiber layups. These were my very first pieces, even when quality was not the best, I love the look of the real carbon fiber, this is not a vynil stiker that its very popular, actually I am starting a small bussine using this material. Current finish of my actual layups are beautiful!

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I deff like it on the center console and radio bezel.
 






That stuff looks great!!!!!
 












That is some very nice work. I hope you can make some money selling the product. Not sure what kind of market there is for auto interior, but I bet you could do well in the motorcycle business, especially Harley. Maybe you could do custom helmets also?
 












Is this carbon fiber over the plastic trims, or did you actually make molds and full composite pieces? Either way, looks nice.
 












Thanks, basically most of my supplies I get them from soller composites, you can google it. For process, basically it is to cover the parts with a black resin, wait just to get "tacky", layout the carbon fiber, then apply some clear resin coats, then polish, clear coat thena polish again.

On youtube it is easy to find several tutorials about this process.

Basically in these pieces the use of the carbon fiber is cosmetic, but at this moment I am playing with a diferent tecnic in order to make a soccer shin guards for a relative on full carbon fiber, according to tecnic the strength it will be bigger than steel.

I started on this mainly as a hoobie, yes I have started to make small bussine with this, my primary work does not allow me many time as I wish to invest on this, but I have see it growing this small bussine!
 






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