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The difference between G10, Micarta and Carbon Fiber
G-10, Micarta, and Carbon Fiber are just thermoset resin blends (liquid plastic) reinforced by layers of some sort of woven cloth that are soaked in the resin. It is then baked/hardened/cured into a lightweight, and very strong material that can be carved, milled, cut into whatever you want.
The difference between the three are generally determined by the material that makes up the reinforcing cloth layers.
G-10: Fiberglass - strands of glass woven into a cloth
Micarta: commonly linen; any cloth really
Carbon Fiber: strands of carbon woven into a cloth
Cloth / Canvas/ Cotton Micarta is made using a phenolic resin, which cures under heat and pressure...layers of cloth saturated in the resin, and pressed in a mold and heated...
Paper Micarta uses the same method, but uses paper instead of a cloth material..
G10 is glass fibres and epoxy resin in pressure plates, and the epoxy cures with its own heat and cure time...
The colours are dependant on the glass fibre colours and the resin colours...
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