Cherry Wood Electric Guitar

But all that means is that i like it ymmv.

Cherry wood electric guitar.

Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut. I ve owned several cherry guitars and liked them all got a pretty good one at the moment. It is used for back an sides for guitars where it compares favourably to the true rosewoods. It s dryer than rosewood so i guess that means it s closer to mahogany.

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. 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. Cherry is a great wood. Al carruth is a fan and says.

Maybe a bit less dry sounding. The janka of black cherry is approximately 950 and the specific gravity is 0 55. Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. 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.

It does have more reverb than maple. That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago. 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. He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and.

In general i love cherry for furniture and cabinetry and it can obviously have a very rich look. I d put the tone somewhere in the range of maple and walnut. I ve used it for both classical and steel string guitars as well as fiddles and lots of dulcimers.