You'r welcome... hendrix, there's alot of other wierd stuff used for necks like Steinbergers for example, wich uses wierd and wonderful stuff like fibre resin and graphite material, but I think if you're going to do something that out of the usual you're going to need a lot of money, knowledge, and freinds who you can "borrow" tools and advice from... but to be honest i've no idea where you're going to get enough graphite for a guitar! I know you can get it in Badminton Rackets...
Yep! I know about why the prices, as if you divide the labor/ tool/ maintaince/ etc costs over thousands of guitars you'r going to lower costs, and the materials are giong to be cheap when buy them in the thousands as opposed to some poor shmuck wanting to buy 2single and one humbucker pickups, or a single bridge! It's just a fact of life... still though there's a nice feeling about having you'r "own" instrument...