It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods.
Cherry wood electric guitar.
Al carruth is a fan and says.
Not as transparent as maple or as dark as 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.
Well it has its own tone qualities.
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.
I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers.
It s dryer than rosewood so i guess that means it s closer to mahogany.
He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and.
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.
In general i love cherry for furniture and cabinetry and it can obviously have a very rich look.
Cherry is a great wood.
I tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods.
Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike.
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.
But all that means is that i like it ymmv.
It does have more reverb than maple.
That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.