Cherry Wood Acoustic Guitar

Im looking to either do a v or an ml shaped guitar.

Cherry wood acoustic guitar.

I was just curious to know if cherry wood would be good use for a guitar body. Cherry creme guitar cherry wood with creme binding light as a feather sounds godlike. 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. Random1643 davidp and doug 54 like this.

Very different to maple rosewood has a high response rate. A great deal actually. He provided cherry for the b s and necks red spruce for tops and hornbeam for fingerboards and. Not as transparent as maple or as dark as walnut.

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. 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. 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. Rosewood is a very popular wood for guitars and has been used a lot traditionally too.

These a l guitars are made entirely out of the cherry all laminates and still sound amazing for what they are. My brother recently bought a house and there is a huge cherry tree i will be helping taking out. It is big enough so that i would be able to get 1 solid piece and mor. Cherry is a great wood.

As far as cherry being a good tonewood it does serve a purpose. 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. 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. 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.

That was for the cherry seven project at the montreal guitar festival a couple of years ago.