Cherry Wood Electric Guitar

In general i love cherry for furniture and cabinetry and it can obviously have a very rich look.

Cherry wood electric guitar.

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. He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. I tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods. Maybe a bit less dry sounding.

That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago. 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. It s dryer than rosewood so i guess that means it s closer to mahogany. Might have a custom built in cherry sometime.

The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55. I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers. Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods.

Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut. It does have more reverb than maple. 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.

I ve owned several cherry guitars and liked them all got a pretty good one at the moment. Well it has its own tone qualities. Cherry is a great wood.