Cherry wood
The cherry wood is a semi-heavy wood, with different heartwood of a very variable color from reddish to bright red, which can become red-brown when seasoned. The texture is fine and the grain is straight.
To give a brighter red color, the wood is treated with lime water.
Technological properties
The Cherry wood is characterized by a medium hardness wood, very resistant to bending and yielding.
It is easy to work, the shearing is applied to which trunks suitable for shape and absence of defects are used. Tinting and painting give excellent results.
Short-lasting with mushrooms, not resistant to xylophagous insects, but is easily impregnable with preservatives.
Use
The wood is highly appreciated for its appearance and for its good workability characteristics in fine carpentry work, crafts and lathe objects, window frames and interior cladding; household tools, toys, parts of musical instrumentsi.
Very used for veneering exposed parts of furniture and in the production of mortuary bonnets.
Typical defects
Tend to deform; color stains.
Technical details of the cherry wood
| Family | European Hardwood Family |
| Scientific name | Prunus avium |
| Other names | Wild cherry (I); Cherry (GB); Cerisier, Merisier (F) |
| Geographic origin | Sporadic in mixed broad-leaved woods from the plain to the mountain belt |
| Specific weight Medium | Fresh 800 kg/m3 |
| Dried 600 kg/m3 | |
| Sawing | Easy |
| Drying | Easy if slow |
| Planing | Easy |
| Gluing | Easy except with with fast hot glues |
| Nailing and screwing | Easy |
