Cherry Wood Acoustic Guitar

My brother recently bought a house and there is a huge cherry tree i will be helping taking out.

Cherry wood acoustic guitar.

He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. Most of us aren t wood experts so what exactly do different woods have to do with the sound of an acoustic guitar. It is big enough so that i would be able to get 1 solid piece and mor. Im looking to either do a v or an ml shaped guitar.

Random1643 davidp and doug 54 like this. Cherry is a great wood. These a l guitars are made entirely out of the cherry all laminates and still sound amazing for what they are. It has great mid range like mahogany but also expands well into the high end tones and low end tones producing deep bass notes and bright treble notes.

Crafted entirely f rom fsc certified woods including a sitka spruce top cherry back and sides a mahogany high performance neck ebony fingerboard and bridge and an african blackwood headplate the ome cherry is martin s newest fsc guitar the model includes gold open gear tuners and arrives stage ready with fishman matrix vt enhance electronics so you can rock out and sound as. I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut. The seagulls have a laminate of cherry between the mahogany on the mahogany bodied models which gives the tone more treble according to lasido so i take it it is dense. I know godin uses wild cherry for their acoustic guitars under the art and lutherie label but otherwise i haven t heard much about cherry.

Rosewood is a very popular wood for guitars and has been used a lot traditionally too. A great deal actually. Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. As far as cherry being a good tonewood it does serve a purpose.

Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago. I was just curious to know if cherry wood would be good use for a guitar body. Very few companies are making guitars with cherry i think the reason is because the cost of cherry is quite high and it does not look as flashy as some other woods out there.

Quebec luthier marc saumier gets all of his wood locally and thought it might be fun to get a group of us to make guitars from the same batch of wood.