Cherry Wood?

[mailman]

does anyone know what the tonal properties of cherry would be on a guitar, and where it would be used?

i know acoustics use cherry, but i havnt really seen electric guitar use it

[Doc]

One of the reaons may be that untill recently sherry was really expensive compared to other domestic hardwoods. It isn't anymore if you compare it to say, maple

When maple was $1.90 bft I was paying $4.20 for cherry. The other day 8/4 maple was 30% more than cherry and walnut was a bargain.

I don't know how it sounds from personal experience, but it is very hard and pretty darn dense. It fabricates and finishes really nicely. It has a tendency to get splotchy with some stains, but that can be delt with.

It does tend to have resin patches in it sometimes. These are stable but they do really show up becouse the stuff is dark purple. They look like someone dug out a pocket and packed it with purple wood filler.

[Maiden69]

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...highlite=cherry

look for daveq threads, he did his last guitar with cherry, and there are 11 pages of related topics.

[Lizard_King]

I've used cherry on two electrics so far, and I love the tone I get from it. Almost a cross between mahogany and maple. It's really easy to work with as well.And it works well for necks to. Just thought I would add my $.02. If my camera was working right I would post some picts of the two I made using cherry. One lp, and one strat style. Lizard_King