Graphite neck thru

[Graiskye]

So I was watching some rig rundowns on the 'Tube, and holy freaking crap there is Doyle of Misfits fame on Rig Rubdown(!!), I figure this is gonna be good, and it was, misfits being the misfits some of you will likely hate Doyle and his anti tech attitude, but I love his no BS way of being, and imagine when the grease paint comes off you get a pretty intelligent, creative human being, he mentions he is a metal worker probably what he does for a day job, when he wants or has too.

All that aside, I just want to talk about his guitar, what a beast, and the part when he mentions he had to start making his own guitars so they could take the abuse(on golden Gods Doyle actually power chord punches the guitar in half the last chord of the Last Caress, he mentions it but I had to see it, its true he punches the guitar in half). Rock and Roll..lol.

Anyways he talks about getting sik of carving necks so they made a mold for a neck thru out of graphite, and lay it up with truss rods etc etc I guess, then glue and press I am assuming.The body wings actually attach and can be removed, heres picture of Doyle sans grease paint with a couple of the axes....(not sure if either are the now graphite necked model he makes) but you get the idea.

I guess a company called October Guitars was making some of em but Doyle says they are not up to snuff..lol. enough about Doyle.

So the graphite I know it has been used, and I think you can even buy graphite necks, but the neck thru idea intrigued me enough to want to ask about it.

Have we any members who work with graphite, I build model aircraft and use it all the time in them so I have experience in composites, and would like to maybe try to make a graphite or maybe to start a graphite/wood neck, say graphite neck rosewood fingerboard, something along those lines.

Anyone able to add any ideas or information to this surely halfbaked idea.

Peace all,

Mike,

[Graiskye]

mmmmm I was 'simply' trying to edit the original post and seem to have doubled up somehow, my apologies.

If an admin wants to just cleaqr this up, I cant seem to even edit the above post, new to the forum so bear with me please.

[Misfit96]

This link might help it's not much, but its all I've been able to find on how they do it as I have been going mad trying to work it out myself so i can make a graphite through neck as well.