Cherry Wood Electric Guitar

I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut.

Cherry wood electric guitar.

Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55. It s dryer than rosewood so i guess that means it s closer to mahogany. 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. He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.

It does have more reverb than maple. I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers. Cherry is a great wood. Well it has its own tone qualities.

It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods. Maybe a bit less dry sounding. 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 tend to think of cherry as in the maple class of tonewoods.

Al carruth is a fan and says. But all that means is that i like it ymmv. 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.