Reading thru the new WOOD magazine this evening there is a cool article on a full size car made of wood.  To the cool part.  They show a pic (see below) of the leaf springs being laminated, OSAGE ORANGE was the wood of choice. Anyway the caption on the photo says "Borrowed from Bow-Makers" and states below the photo "Bow-makers prize this tough wood for it's strength & flexibility".  I would say they think it is tough.  They say they are 400 inch-lb. leaf springs, that's alot of strain put on the wood...........
Thought it was a nice plug for us.

He he he!!!! Cool.

Wonder what the draw weigh on that puppy will be?

Hope they didn't violate a ring.  :eek:

I wonder if they will have any "spring follow" with their finished product.

that's cool but I wonder what the point is? I find it hard to believe that wood (yes even Osage) can out perform modern steel alloys in this application. There has to be more to the story.

If the idea takes off, forget getting wood for another Osage bow.
ChuckC

Brent, do a Google search for "Splinter wooden car"  Neat stuff.  Done basically just to see if it could be done.

bbassi - There is more to the story.  They built a complete full size car out of wood, springs included.....  As Jeremy said do a google search for "Splinter wooden car"

check it oput, here is the sight for it, kind of a neat idea LOL don't know if I would want the girlfreind driving it though    

http://www.joeharmondesign.com/index.html