Cherry Wood Acoustic Guitar

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

Cherry wood acoustic guitar.

He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. I was just curious to know if cherry wood would be good use for a guitar body. My brother recently bought a house and there is a huge cherry tree i will be helping taking out. 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 has great mid range like mahogany but also expands well into the high end tones and low end tones producing deep bass notes and bright treble notes. A great deal actually. As far as cherry being a good tonewood it does serve a purpose. I know godin uses wild cherry for their acoustic guitars under the art and lutherie label but otherwise i haven t heard much about cherry.

The woods used to build guitars acoustic guitars in particular are called tonewoods and they have enormous effects on the sound and price of an instrument. Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. The seagulls have a laminate of cherry between the mahogany on the mahogany bodied models which gives the tone more treble according to lasido so i take it it is dense. Cherry is a great wood.

I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago. Im looking to either do a v or an ml shaped guitar. Random1643 davidp and doug 54 like this.

Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. Very different to maple rosewood has a high response rate. Most of us aren t wood experts so what exactly do different woods have to do with the sound of an acoustic guitar. These a l guitars are made entirely out of the cherry all laminates and still sound amazing for what they are.

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.