Fine Woodworking should do a story on this project, it’s some amazing new technology that has obvious applications for building technology as well as furniture design.
“To achieve Harmon’s goal of a fully fluid body surface, the team had to invent a wood veneer cloth to use in place of more usual glass-fiber or carbon-fiber weaves. That meant designing and developing specific looms, acquiring rolls of veneer five inches wide, slitting it into bands sixty feet long and an eighth- or a quarter-inch wide, weaving it into cloth to place in female molds, and then vacuum bagging it with epoxy resin. Those looms-wood, of course-are works of art, using wooden clothespins machined to feed veneer strips through their jaws. With too much tension, they slipped; if there wasn’t enough tension, rubber bands attached to the clothespins compensated. It was wonderfully elegant, wonderfully simple.”
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I'm not a car guy at all, but isn't that the same car that was on the cover of Wood Magazine a couple months ago?
Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
(soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)
- Success is not the key to happines. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
possibly, I haven't looked at that magazine in a long time. At any rate it's still a very interesting project and if it spares me from reading yet another article on how to sharpen a card scraper then that would be a good thing.
wm,
I saw that car in person at the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show last month. Truly incredible !
Bill Koustenis
Advanced Automotive Machine
Waldorf Md
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