Jan
11
One of the most popular woods is the american cherry flooring. This wood is not only known for its strength and stability but also for medicinal properties. Its bark has been used for making tonic.
Cherry wood is a popular choice among furniture makers, pattern makers, woodturners, musical instruments, professional and medical instruments.
Midwestern and eastern United States are the common areas to find this wood. Unfortunately, its supply isn’t highly abundant, and it is primary harvested for high grade lumber where it’s attractive color can be displayed.
Among the North American Cherry trees, the Black cherry is the largest. With average of 80 feet (24m) The tree can be harvested after 35 to 40 years of growth, and they can reach full growth after 100 years.
Some flooring manufacturers steam the wood to bleed the red color of the heartwood into the sapwood. The heartwood of cherry trees is the most popular area used as it has the reddish color that cherry is associated with. But the sapwood colors, can be a whitish color, light reddish or brown.
Even though this wood is highly resistant to decay, the sapwood can be susceptible to attacks from the furniture beetle. Cherry has excellent stability and warps or moves very little once dried.
