In order to help prevent a guitar's neck losing ... on the stiffness of carbon fiber to keep things nice and straight. In fact, the double-cut body and the neck are fashioned from carbon fiber.

staffers taught attendees how to make traditional acoustic guitars using carbon fiber, a surprising and particularly modern material, for the instrument's backing shell, neck, and headstock.

The Apollo series guitars have a 24.75-inch scale carbon fiber neck with a truss rod inside for adjusting relief and a squat 3x3 headstock angled at 11 degrees, which is said to lower the friction ...