Carbon Fiber Stone

[skidesmond]

Anyone ever hear of Carbon Fiber Stone (CFS), know anything about it or try it? I came across it while researching Zai skis at http://www.zai.ch/index.php?id=359&L=1 Nice looking skis... heavy on the marketing/philosophy but they are using CFS is some of their skis.

A company in Munich Germany called Techno Carbon makes it, http://www.technocarbon.de/

Some info I found from a GOOGLE search:
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/20 ... _0002.html

[MontuckyMadman]

I thought we determined in another thread or from my own zai research that this was a basalt/carbon matrix.

[skidesmond]

When I did a search for carbon fiber stone in the forum I didn't find anything but I did find this humorous thread on Zai:
viewtopic.php?t=1611&highlight=zai

And this one:
viewtopic.php?t=674&highlight=zai

And this one:
viewtopic.php?t=1717&highlight=zai

I think I found out all I need to know.

[Damon]

I thought we determined in another thread or from my own zai research that this was a basalt/carbon matrix.

That's interesting... just a blend, no fiber/orientation?

[skidesmond]

I thought we determined in another thread or from my own zai research that this was a basalt/carbon matrix.

That's interesting... just a blend, no fiber/orientation?

The impression I got was that it was a thin slice of stone (granite?) sandwiched between carbon fiber.