Very cool. Carbon fiber has a good resonant wood like quality which is why it is a good material for making guitars. Steinberger first started making carbon fiber guitars back in the early 80s. They looked very futuristic at the time which looked good in those 80s video music clips.



I used one of these basses in a recording session back in the 80s ... loved the sound .... but absolutely hated that it had no head stock. While that looked very cool there was nothing to anchor your thumb on at the end of neck and my hand would slip off the end when playing on the low frets. Though this current version looks like they have extended the neck out more probably to get around that problem.