Is this what the future has in store?

[Dave Bagwill]

Since they sell for around $5K (the violin, not the cello), you would have to spend 5 million dollars for a traditionally made instrument equal to it in sound.

Well that is impressive. I had read the reviews, and listened to many sound clips, and found the sound to be very good, but I'm not a player of violin family instruments - I'll take the word of the experts.

Does this mean that a CF guitar with the sound and playability of a pre-war Brazilian RW/Adi instrument could be made for, say, $1k? Or less? I wonder.

CF probably will be the future; I have mixed thoughts about that.

[ken cierp]

I am sure once the major manufacturers get by the legal hurdles with "Rainsong" we'll start seeing more and more Carbon Fiber guitars maybe just a matter of rights running out.

I've played the Martin "Formica" models and they are much better sounding then one would expect. -- campfire guitars to my ear.