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Title: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: rb61 on January 26, 2015, 09:59:00 PM

Can someone tell me which this is? Zebrawood or Tigerwood. The bow is a Bear Bearcat. Not a stress crack or ding on it.

Thanks,
Ray

  (http:// [url=http://s1111.photobucket.com/user/61windsor/media/Bearcat_zpsae0jpehd.jpg.html] [img]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h477/61windsor/Bearcat_zpsae0jpehd.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Bjorn on January 26, 2015, 10:43:00 PM

They can be a little difficult to distinguish. That riser is Tiger wood; Zebra is more striking from light to dark and brighter. The 1964 Grizzly is Zebra wood.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Horney Toad on January 26, 2015, 11:10:00 PM

I vote for zebrawood!  lol

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 27, 2015, 03:56:00 AM

Zebrawood

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Hopewell Tom on January 27, 2015, 05:39:00 AM

And a Lefty! Please, tell us some more about it.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: zepnut on January 27, 2015, 07:34:00 AM

Have to go with Zebrawood.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Jack Shanks on January 27, 2015, 10:06:00 AM

I have some zebrawood bows like that which are tighter grained than most.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 27, 2015, 10:08:00 AM

It's really a no brainer. Just take a look at "68 Grizzlys '69 Grizzlys, most Herters bows. It's dark like Rosewood with various stripe patterns nothing at all like Zebrawood

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 27, 2015, 11:51:00 AM

Correction on the 69s I meant to say K Mag and Hunter models usually the black tippers.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: rb61 on January 27, 2015, 11:38:00 PM

Hopewell Tom,

I found this while this old guy was looking for a lighter pound bow to work on my form. Left hand made this a challenge. It is a 27# that appears to have been shot very little.  It was scary, because the seller had no rating on Evilbay. But it turned out just fine.

It seems that the most votes go to Tigerwood. Based on the images of wood samples that I found online, I lean toward Tigerwood also.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Jack Shanks on January 28, 2015, 06:38:00 AM

You have 4 votes for Zebrawood and 1 for Tigerwood. Tigerwood wins out. Hmmm........... I guess I need to go re-figure.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 28, 2015, 07:46:00 AM

New math they're teaching these days.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: bearmagtd on January 28, 2015, 09:28:00 AM

The 1964 catalog show that it would be African Zebra wood.

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: rb61 on January 28, 2015, 12:07:00 PM

Looks like I was up way past my bedtime-not sure what I was thinking about. It must have been something other than what I was writing.

Thanks for the slap up side the head..... I needed that.

Ray

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 28, 2015, 01:21:00 PM

We all been there Ray-no biggie !!

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Horney Toad on January 28, 2015, 08:15:00 PM

(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z134/Horney_Toad/tigerwood_zps25dae6fa.jpg)


TIGERWOOD

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Horney Toad on January 28, 2015, 08:16:00 PM

(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z134/Horney_Toad/zebra_zpsa8e1d503.jpg)


ZEBRAWOOD

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: papabear08 on January 29, 2015, 02:42:00 AM

Toad da man !!

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: damascusdave on January 29, 2015, 04:10:00 PM

I often use the website hobbithouseinc.com...one thing you will notice on there is that trying to identify any wood based on a single sample is pretty risky...the truth is there are some great similarities between some pieces of zebrawood and some pieces of tigerwood...the big factor is Bear Archery used a lot of Zebrawood back then and very little or no Tigerwood (Goncalo Alves)...not long ago I had a chance to buy a 1961 Kodiak Special where the dark striping of the Zebrawood completely overpowered the golden part...I am still not sure what happened with that deal

DDave

Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Horney Toad on January 29, 2015, 11:08:00 PM

Check out the zebrawood on this bow:

on da bay

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Title: Re: Zebrawood or Tigerwood?
Post by: Kelly on February 26, 2015, 02:11:00 PM

Yup, Zebrawood.

Tigerwood is similar in color to Rosewood. IMO no way those two woods can be mixed up. Zebrawood has a light almost tan color background with dark brown streaks. Tigerwood has a darker reddish orange background with dark brown streaks.