i work building carbon fiber race yachts (builders wild oats and the fastest race yachts in the world) and i am pretty sure i can say we have never even thought about using it due to the fact that carbon is so much easier to use in forming shapes and such becasue if bamboo was easy to use im sure we or some one say boeing would be using it today i personally thing alot of its strength comes from its shape if you get some technical data sheets D im sure i could be able to compare them to carbon