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Marc C Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 129
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 02:35 pm: |    |
Any special cautions or concerns? I've never used zebra wood although I've seen several pieces. How does it lay up? Finish? or is it easy money. |
Sheldon Wolfe
Senior Member
Username: sheldon_wolfe
Post Number: 158
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 03:33 pm: | |
The stripes are usually vertical. |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 517
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 05:44 pm: | |
>>The stripes are usually vertical.<<
Unless the horse is lying down. ;-)
I have heard that this wood is difficult to work with and finish because the stripes are different densities. I have also heard that is stinks like a sewer when cut.
What exactly are you trying to do with it? |
Amy C. Kilburn, AIA, CSI, CCS
Advanced Member
Username: cruise_girl
Post Number: 5
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 05:49 pm: | |
Marc: Here're some partial quotes from the Bacon Veneers Handbook "Gems of the World's Forests:"
"...Gaboon Zebrawood is usually considered most desirable, ordinarily containing less gum deposit, and showing somewhat lighter background on which the close and somewhat parallel, very contrasting, dark brown to black stripes show so vividly...."
"...Cameroon type usually shows more gum spots or 'pitch pockets' and is darker in background with a more variegated stripe..."
"...used in quantity for border and stripe matched faces..."
"...occasional log is flat cut with striking effect for architectural paneling. Quartered and flat cut veneer desirable..."
A few other facts from the handbook:
Classification: Hardwood
Hardness: Moderate
Porosity: Moderate
Figure Occurance: Seldom, if ever figured
Commercial Portions of Tree: Trunk or bole
Size of timber: 26-36 inces (dia.)
They offer no commentary on special matching or sketch matching (box, diamond, herringbone, checkerboard), but you could have a field day with layouts! Finishing system: I'd talk to the source of the flitches.
Good luck! |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 519
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 06:12 pm: | |
FYI. I was serious about my response (except for the horse lying down part).
http://www.thewoodbox.com/data/wood/zebrawoodinfo.htm
http://www.woodzone.com/woods/zebrawood.htm
http://www.exotic-wood.com/zebrawood.htm |
Marc C Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 130
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 - 07:50 pm: | |
Thanks, I have forwarded all this to the architect that needed it along with the 2 paragraphs in the AWI Standards.
Not that you should stop looking if any more good info comes your way.
PS I'm assuming that with this and other exotics, I should always "hand select" the flitches as grading criteria are scant and cost is high. |
John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: john_regener
Post Number: 225
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 03:00 am: | |
And watch out for lions in the tall grass. |
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