Cherry

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.

Botanical Name
Prunus serotina

Uses
Furniture, cabinets, interior decoration including paneling, woodenware, decorative items.

Relative Working Properties
Machining: Excellent
Resistance to splitting in nailing: Fair
Resistance to splitting in screwing: Fair
Gluing: Very Good