In general i love cherry for furniture and cabinetry and it can obviously have a very rich look.
Cherry wood electric guitar.
I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut.
Al carruth is a fan and says.
I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers.
In terms of tone and density sounds like maybe a better fingerboard wood than a body tonewood or could be nice for putting a cap on a darker sounding wood like mahogany.
Might have a custom built in cherry sometime.
He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and.
It does have more reverb than maple.
I ve owned several cherry guitars and liked them all got a pretty good one at the moment.
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.
I tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods.
That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.
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.
Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut.
Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike.
It s dryer than rosewood so i guess that means it s closer to mahogany.
But all that means is that i like it ymmv.
Well it has its own tone qualities.
Cherry is a great wood.
The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55.