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Saved 2026-06-05 · Posted 2026-06-04 · Status: New
A wooden supercar?
No you didn't read that wrong. Meet Joe Harmon, a former NC State graduate student who decided one day that he was going to build a supercar entirely out of wood.
On the latest edition of Barn Find Hunter, Tom Cotter gets a tour around this incredible project known as "Splinter." Tom and Joe walk through the build process, the highs and lows, and the standout components that required Joe to specially engineer tools just to manufacture the parts he envisioned.
Watch the full episode now, at the link in bio.
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Technically still carbon
Dry Wood is 50% Carbon so it’s still a “carbon fiber”
They made a wicker lambo..what a basket case
Me adding words to my English essay ahh
This is 100% interesting what about crash?
Wood is nature's OG composite: fibers in resin.
Never thought I'd see a Parquet car
Yeah in Indonesia there was also Rotan fiber composite, but the president prefers Sawit coconut thingy so yeah it's kinda forgotten
this car is fire
It looks like a wardrobe car 😂
Carbon fiber
How do you do that and not mention even one property of the material
wait... so technically still carbon fiber 🤔
Mobil rotan
So it's plywood?