Prunus serotinas
Cherry is a highly prized furniture wood, well known for its color, subtle grain pattern and unsurpassed finishing qualities. Cherry has a uniform texture and finishes extremely well. Cherry grows across the eastern United States, with the preferred lumber coming primarily from the northern Appalachian region, especially Pennsylvania. Cherry represents less than 5% of the total volume of timber and lumber production in the eastern United States.
General Information
Uses |
Availability |
Price |
Furniture, cabinets, interior decoration including paneling, woodenware, decorative items. |
Good availability in 4/4 through 8/4 thickness. Limited availability in 10/4 and heavier. |
Valuable. |
Relative Working Properties
Machining |
Resistance to splitting in nailing |
Resistance to splitting in screwing |
Gluing |
Excellent |
Fair |
Fair |
Very Good |
Physical Properties
Specific gravity (12% m.c.) |
Average shipping weight kilograms (kg) per cubic metre (m3) air dry |
Average volumetric shrinkage (oven dry % of green) |
Modulus of rupture (kilopascals) |
Modulus of elasticity (megapascals) |
Side hardness (newtons) |
0.5 |
625 |
11.5 |
55000 |
9000 |
2900 |