Cherry Wood Electric Guitar

The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55.

Cherry wood electric guitar.

He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. Maybe a bit less dry sounding. But all that means is that i like it ymmv. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.

Cherry is a great wood. I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut. 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.

It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods. 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 tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods. Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut.

Might have a custom built in cherry sometime. 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. Al carruth is a fan and says. Well it has its own tone qualities.

Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers. It does have more reverb than maple.