American Cherry

Family: Rosaceae - Order: Rosales - Class: Magnoliopsida
Scientific name: Prunus serotina
Trade name: American Cherry

Also known as Wild Black Cherry, Black Cherry, Rum Cherry

Origin: Eastern North America

Instrumental uses:
Guitar back and sides, electric guitar bodies, head plates and bindings.

Tonal properties:

Surprising tonal properties and overall wood properties, placed between maple and mahoganies.

Used often on guitar back and sides, electric guitar bodies and necks as well.

High projection on the midrange and flat on the bass or high frequencies. Punchy as maple but deep sounding, clean and dynamic, with sustain and very clear overall frequency range.

Very good workability and very good natural finish.

Medium density reference nearly 560 kg/m³

All these Cherry trees exist as sub-species and varieties too numerable to mention here. The cherry is the fruit of these varietals, some of them edible. The leaves are simple and usually whole with a saw-edge margin. The cultivation of cherry is held in cold regions and they don’t attain much height, occasionally 10m tall.

The sapwood is pale whitish cream and the heartwood is pinkish brown or  red brownish, turning to reddish brown after light exposure. 

CITES status is unrestricted. Is reported on the IUCN Red List as least concern.