American Cherry

TEMPERATE HARDWOOD

Uses: Pattern making, tobacco pipes, musical instruments, furniture and cabinetmaking, high-class joinery, boat interiors, backing blocks for mounting printing plates. It is an excellent turnery and carving wood. Selected logs are converted into decorative veneers for furniture, cabinets, wall panelling, flushdoors, etc.

General Description: Cherry's heartwood varies from rich red to reddish-brown, with a fine, straight, close grain with narrow brown pith flecks and small gum pockets, and with a smooth texture. Weighs about 580 kg/m³ (36 lb/ft³); specific gravity .58.

Further product details

Mechanical Properties

The timber has good wood bending properties, low stiffness, and medium strength and resistance to shock loads.

Seasoning

Dries fairly rapidly, with little degrade if care is taken to avoid a moderately large amount of shrinkage during seasoning. There is medium movement in service.

Durability

Cherry's sapwood is liable to attack by common furniture beetle and heartwood moderately resistant to preservative treatment. The timber is moderately durable.

Other Information

Family Name: Rosaceae

Latin Name: Prunus serotina

Distribution: In small quantities or scattered trees in deciduous forest areas in Canada and USA.

Also known as: English, French, Polish, Slavonian, etc according to origin.

American Ash American Birds Eye Maple American Black Walnut American Cherry American Hard Rock Maple American Red Elm American Red Oak American Soft Maple American Tulipwood American White Oak Western Red Alder