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by Gravityloss 4531 days ago
For the really good stuff, you'd need pultruded carbon fiber where the glue sets with the fibers tensioned straight to really get good strength effects.

A lot of composite work is low volume production with excessive manual work at not very good quality.

Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) might be a much more interesting material as it has a higher strength to weight ratio and as it melts at a lower temperature, 135 C. It is nontoxic too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-molecular-weight_pol...