Excellent. Working with CF is a little weird and wacky, but not so much different than glass. It develops eye-popping strength numbers, but can be very brittle. Most layups include glass, kevlar, polyester or some other fabrics too, so as to offset the brittleness.

Here are a few sites to get you started:

http://www.cstsales.com/carbon-sleeve.htm
http://www.braider.com/index_hi.html
http://www.acp-composites.com/acp-bcs.htm

And you may want to check out Dynel braid too, for use as an outer abrasion-resistant layer:

http://www.acp-composites.com/acp-bcs.htm

Good luck, and pleas keep us posted.

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