A few professionals that I know play on the Luis and Clark Carbon Fiber instruments as second instruments.

http://www.luisandclark.com/?p.....uct=1097-2

I'm not against them but not really convinced either. Especially not for the money. On second hand, you can put them underwater and there won't be much damage except to the sound-post, bridge and possibly the strings too.

jcwebb said
That funny screech... errr, louder, odd harmonic tone that comes through occasionally.  Is that a wolf note?  What causes that?  Can it be caused by technique too?  I've started getting that occasionally with mine.  

I don't think that that is a wolf tone. Check when you get it to continuously play that note sliding the finger barely above and below it. Wolf tones always occur on the same note on a particular instrument and more or less all the time. Not just sometimes, unless it is almost not there at all. In that case it could come with temperature changes and such.

Fiddlestix said

Fiddlerman said
A few professionals that I know play on the Luis and Clark Carbon Fiber instruments as second instruments.

http://www.luisandclark.com/?p.....uct=1097-2

I'm not against them but not really convinced either. Especially not for the money. On second hand, you can put them underwater and there won't be much damage except to the sound-post, bridge and possibly the strings too.

Have they experimented with CF sound post's and bridge's yet ?

I actually wondered about that myself. I don't know.
Never heard of it in any case.