What is fascor on a older Bear Bow

[kohannahfound1]

I'am thinking about buying a older Super Kodiak that has fascor Good thing or Not?

[acadian archer]

fascor ????

[fatman]

you might try posting this over on the History/Collecting Forum...some guys over there with a lot of answers  

[Stone Knife]

We have a Grizzly with that, pretty sure it's polymer impregnated wood, kind of like future wood. I think it's a good thing.

[Todd Rothermel]

I could be mistaken, but I thought Fascor had something to do with the wood laminates in the limb... Fast Core... Fascor.  Maybe a pre-runner of Actionwood????

[Bill Carlsen]

Bow laminations used to be made with solid strips of maple. When actionwood came onto the scene I believe Bear Archery called it Fascor.

[vermonster13]

Fascor is resin impregnated maple lams in the limbs.

[d. ward]

fascor actoin wood diamond wood there all about the same thing laminated strips that are epoxy impregnated.bd

[TonyW]

Hey, Fred's marketing genius got me to fork over a few more bucks to buy a Super Grizzly instead of a Grizzly when I bought my first "real" bow.

I got a red regimental stripe and Fascor to boot!

Still, the old Grizz and its Fascor is my sentimental favorite. That epoxy impregnation is the closest thing to petrified wood I've seen.

[Grant Young]

When Fascor was introduced in advertising it was illustrated as impregnated wood laminated across the width of the limb in very even narrow strips. How accurate that illustration was is tough to say but previous laminations had been "stacked" sheets. I own and shoot both Fascor and pre-fascor limbs and can't tell much difference; I might even prefer the conventional maple lams.Bowdoc's description of its makeup is dead-on. "Fascor" came around with the Victor buyout and the advertising verbiage in the promotions became a little more inventive. It's the same movement that gave us the "Super Grizzly" which is only different from the '68 in that it has a dyed, laminated riser and was again produced in 58" instead of 56". Feel and performance were unchanged. Not being critical here, but I've looked hard for measurable improvements and can't find them.   Grant

[Grant Young]

Tony- very good analogy of Futurewood. Like petrified wood, it ain't really wood anymore.

[portugeejn]

I have a 1971 Grizzly with maple limb laminations, and a ???? Super Grizzly made with Fascor (I am trying to nail down the date in another post if anyone had ideas-shameless plug-).  

They seem pretty much the same to me, other than the Fascor adds weight to the bow. Given the 5-6# difference in the two bows, one seems just as fast as the other.  My guess is that Fascor is tougher than just plain maple, maybe less likely to be damaged from rough handling, but it is mostly marketing.

RonP