Cherry Wood Electric Guitar

It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods.

Cherry wood electric guitar.

I ve owned several cherry guitars and liked them all got a pretty good one at the moment. The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55. 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. Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike.

Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers. Cherry is a great wood. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.

I tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods. Might have a custom built in cherry sometime. In general i love cherry for furniture and cabinetry and it can obviously have a very rich look. It does have more reverb than maple.

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. 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. Al carruth is a fan and says. 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. I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut.