What Is Cherry Lumber?

Cherrywood ^[1] (cherrywood) refers to the wood of black cherry (Prunus serotina), which is a strong, fine-grained, shiny brown or red wood that can obtain a strong gloss. Cherry wood can be used for fine carving and also suitable for making cabinets. Cherry wood has a straight, regular texture and has crimson growth patterns. African cherry or monkey fruit (Mimusops heckelii), mainly used as plywood, has similar growth patterns.

Cherry

Common tree species: black cherry, sweet cherry, blackthorn

Irregular names: black bird cherry, mahogany bird cherry, American black cherry

Wood construction

Tube hole: half-ring porous material to loose porous material. The tube holes are slightly more and slightly smaller. The tube holes at the beginning of the growth round are slightly larger and denser, arranged in a single row; the single hole and the diameter of the compound pipe (2 ~ 3).

Axial thin-walled tissue: missing.

Wood rays: Medium density, slightly wider.

Wood properties

Heartwood: light reddish-brown, often dull tone.

Sapwood: Clearly different from heartwood, nearly white to light rose.

Texture: Straight

Structure: Fine and uniform

Air-dry density: 0.58g / m

Corrosion resistance: Medium

Insect resistance: No data recorded

Others: Slightly shiny; the heart of raw materials often has a sour smell. The wood surface is sometimes pith. The growth wheel is very obvious ^[2]

Cherry wood is mainly distributed in the United States, and also in Europe and Japan. It is called European cherry wood and Japanese cherry wood, respectively. These two types of cherry wood are different in structure and color from American cherry wood, and their density is slightly heavier. The cherrywood heartwood ranges from deep red to light reddish brown, with straight texture, fine brown lines with narrow brown pith spots, and tiny tree capsules. Cherry wood has an air-dry density of about 0.62g / cm. It belongs to high-grade wood and is suitable for the production of high-grade furniture. In addition to solid wood doors in the production of wooden doors, they are mostly used for the surface decoration of wooden doors.

Wood has good bending properties, low hardness and medium strength. The wood is easy to process, has a low degree of wear on the cutter, has good grip power, good adhesion, and good polishability. Large shrinkage during drying, but stable size after drying ^[3]

It can be used for parquet flooring, smoking pipes, musical instruments, solid wood furniture and cabinets, high-quality joinery, marine interior decoration; especially suitable for making car parts or carving parts. Selected logs can be used to make furniture veneers, cabinet veneers, wainscots, and glossy doors. Cherry wood is very popular. It is often made into various decorative furniture, musical instruments and wooden combs. As early as the 17th century, cherry wood was the favorite material of carpenters and decorators. In English proverbs it means beloved.

Cherry wood doors and furniture are very popular in the current home improvement market, but some decoration teams sometimes fake it. For example, Quercus will be used to fill cherry, but the texture of Quercus will be rough, the finish will be insufficient, and the wood will be loose, which is not particularly natural and beautiful. Some people also use southwest birch to fill cherry wood. This kind of wood is very similar to cherry wood, which is very realistic in imitation. Its identification method is that the grain of southwest birch is particularly fine, with small black lines like ants. In addition, the authenticity of cherry wood depends on the color. The real cherry wood is light yellow-brown. Of course, the color identification must be done before the paint treatment, otherwise the decoration team can easily paint with a similar color paint.