How to Fabricate Automotive Fiberglass & Carbon Fiber Parts Paperback – August 28, 2012

Hugely informative book wanting to make anything out of fiberglass. The book is primarily geared towards automotive fiberglass techniques but applies to all fiberglass projects. Very informative. Goes over all aspects of working with fiberglass, tools, differences in materials. Very in depth!

The book is a very good read for an introduction into fiberglassing and what materials are available. It provides a lot of basic information and some generalization on how to accomplish certain fiberglassing repairs and techniques. It does have tutorials, but I feel like it is lacking in them. It takes you through a step by step guide with pictures, but then leaves out the final images to show you what the outcome is. I was hoping for a more in-depth read, but I am still glad I bought it. Definitely a good reference book for anyone interested in learning to fiberglass.

From a layman’s standpoint this book gives you the knowledge you need to work with fiberglass or carbon fiber. An Excellent resource for anyone wanting to get started in this area. Highly recommended.

This is a great book with a lot of useful information. It is nice to see how many items a person can make, using this book will help someone truly make professional looking items for any project you decide

Great book, full of useful information for learning how to work with composites.

So firstly the title is "HOW TO Fabricate Automotive: Fiberglass and Carbon Fiber... I saw this in Grassroots Motor Sports magazine as a MUST READ.. and really my disappointment is really with them and not the book...The book does go over the materials and there uses, and what product and tools you need, and then jumps into the restoration of a triumph, and a custom race car they made on a CAD program... It doesn't really go into what they did at each step of how they went about it, but "Here we made a dash board" and "this is a wing"..."this is a giant vacuum chamber you won't have at an expensive fabrication shop".. they reference several projects like replacing headlights with a fiberglass or CF replacement.. sound like an actually useful project.. but goes no further.. they NEVER go into the process of the cover image.. which to me amounts to literary click bait. how do you make the mold? or is there a book this guy wrote on making molds for the production of FG & CF..Basically you get "this is fiberglass" & "this is what we did with it"I would have removed the HOW TO from the title and I would add a star..

1st - you have to be able to work with materials and use the appropriate safety protection equipment before doing any fabrication - this book was very helpful as a basic primer on the subject - I have read several books and this was quite well done and illustrated.

I thought I knew something about carbon fiber and lay up but boy was I wrong! This book covers it all and is fully informative I would buy from this book company again in a heartbeat