The Splinter: Car Woven Out of Wood
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When you think about car customization, you think about installing a stereo or a turbocharger or something like that, but Joe Harmon and gang have gone a step further and built their own custom car - literally woven out of wood.

The high-performance Splinter is made almost entirely of wood composites and is bonded with professional strength polyvinyl alcohol, urethanes, and epoxies. The body itself is cherry strips weaved together by a homemade "wooden loom".

With even the wheels made of wood, you'd think we were back in the Stone Age, but that's definitely not the case. Multiple videos below demonstrate Harmon's incredible process.

The "wooden loom"

Via dudecraft

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Bryan Crow 2 weeks ago
Wood on the engine just seems like a bad idea. Beautiful though...
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kalle16 2 weeks ago
Now this what i'am talking about, this is really cool stuff for the environment freaks
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CodeAbuser 2 weeks ago
0-60, 1/4, lat accel, slalom numbers or it ain't happened
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dustin 1 week ago
verry cool
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