Carbon Fiber Gear is all about finding the coolest products like gifts, accessories, and novelty items made out of carbon fiber.

There’s a high chance that you found this blog through one of Autoblog’s latest post where they covered our carbon fiber wallpaper compilation. I wanted to give this opportunity to welcome you to the Carbon Fiber Gear blog!

Carbon fiber is a great material that not only looks good, but is also very effective. It’s lightweight and strong, one of the reasons why it’s used in all sorts of applications from automobiles to aircrafts to toilets. Toilets was not a type, carbon fiber has been used in all sort of high-end products as well as novelty items…and that’s precisely why we’re here. We’ve made it our mission to find all of the coolest and most unique carbon fiber products out there…and find you the best deals. Take a look at some previous posts to see some examples:

• Hermes $16,000 Carbon Fiber Briefcase
• Bell & Ross Carbon Fiber Watches
• Carbon Fiber Wallet
• 6 Sexy Carbon Fiber Guitars
• Carbon Fiber Business Card Holder
• Cybergraph 2000 - The $3,000 Carbon Fiber Fountain Pen

If you ever find anything cool that we haven’t covered, feel free to contact us.

Another cool feature that we’ve done was create the Carbon Fiber Gear store. We’re not actually selling anything (Yet ), but we’ve spent hours upon hours setting up the site to categorize practically anything and everything carbon fiber that you can find on eBay. eBay is a great place to find carbon fiber odds and ends, as well as all your standard CF stuff like car and motorcycle parts. Now you can just go to our store and won’t need to weed anything out.

Once again, welcome to the site, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Autoblog had an interesting article explaining how extensive carbon fiber use in vehicles is still a good while out. In fact, GM used the Corvette ZR1 as a test to demonstrate the feasibility of using carbon fiber in mass production, as well as monitoring its degradation over time. The ZR1 has a carbon fiber roof, hood, front splitter, front fenders, side skirts, and spoiler.

Carbon fiber is a great material, but it’s still very expensive to produce. The hope is that over time more and more material will be used, therefore reducing the cost to the point where it can be used in everyday vehicles. It sounds like carbon fiber is here to stay, and we’re here to report the forefront of its coolest products

XOX Audio Tools: The Handle Carbon Fiber Electric Guitar

The first one up is the coolest carbon fiber guitar I could find. It’s made by XOX Audio Tools, and they call the “The Handle”:

The design was done by Peter Solomon, and the guitar is being called the most revolutionary electric guitar of our time.

The entire guitar is a single body where extra material is removed. With the use of carbon fiber, the guitar cannot be broken, so don’t expect to smash it after your concert. The carbon fiber also adds a wider harmonic range and is very slim and lightweight. The first 100 guitars are a limited edition and only available through XOX Audio Tools. Expect to pay around $2,800.

Here’s a video I found of the guitar being used:

Gus: G1 Ten Silver Carbon Fiber Guitar

The next guitar on the list is a very limited edition one (only 10 were made) made by Gus Guitars. This specific edition guitar is called the G1 Ten, and it was especially made to celebrate the company’s 10 year anniversary:

The guitar features a silver carbon fiber finish with a silver carbon laminated fingerboard. It also has turquoise carbon inlays and laser engraved 10th anniversary detailing with a serial number plate.

The G1 Ten also comes with a specially developed case that is a piece of art within itself. It is a form-fitting case that essentially cocoons the guitar into it:

The G1 Ten is by the most expensive on the list, coming in at about $10,000.

Rainsong WS3000 12 String & WS1000 Carbon Fiber Guitar

Acoustic guitars can also be made with carbon fiber, and the Rainsong WS3000 12-string and Rainsong WS1000 are perfect examples:

The WS3000 features an all-graphite body with no body braces. An all-graphite neck and epoxy fingerboard fabricated using RainSong’s Performance Shape Casting as a single piece and no truss rod. There is a urethane UV protectant high gloss finish as well. Since graphite is used, there is almost no dampening. You can expect to spend about $2,300 for one of these.

I found this video of somebody playing on a WS1000:

New Millenium Acoustic Design Carbon Fiber Mandolin

A company by the name of New Millenium Acoustic Design makes a gorgeous carbon fiber mandolin:

NewMAD went with carbon fiber because of its strength, lightweight, and durability features. Carbon fiber is not affected by temperature extremes or moisture, issues that stringed instruments are used to. NewMAD offers your natural black/gray weave, but also yellow/bloack, blue/black, red/bloack, and green/black for a really unique look.

Expect to pay between $3,500 and $6,000 for one of these.

Blackbird Rider Carbon Fiber Guitar

We’ve already featured this on our block, so head over to that post to read more about it. The guitar features a unique design, lightweight (3lbs), an all-hollow design, and a rich sound. Expect to pay about $1,600.

Miller Instruments: Superstring G6 Carbon Fiber Electric Guitar

Miller Instruments offers their Superstring G6 carbon fiber electric guitar which is more of a standard style:

It’s a two-piece guitar that gives off a very fat blue sound without using any pedals. You pick this one up for about $1,900.

Make sure and check out our carbon fiber guitars section of our store.