Re: Bending Cherry Sides
I have two pet peeves being to redundant, turning into my dad telling the same stories over and over, or resurrecting a very old thread and yet here I go. Anywho, I am curious about anything else people might want to add to this thread. I ordered 300 bdft of Cherry 4/4 and 100 bdft of 8/4 for some kitchen shelving table and benches. I expect to have some left over for a build. In this thread it seems you all liked working with it in a different venue guys were saying it was a pain to bend but I can't help but wonder if it isn't more to do with thicknesses because they were not building instruments. Just curious at the pitfalls I may run into. Do you find it more suited to a particular body style like A or F or sound hole configuration F vs oval? Maybe silly questions but I have noticed that some wood just seem brighter than others but never thought much beyond that. Maybe the timber of the wood would dictate one style or body shape over another, I don't know? I figured if anyone did though it would be someone here. Thanks and apologies for becoming a thread necromancer. Oh and one last question Anything I have done in the past has been with wood that sat in my basement it isn't a humid basement but relative to the rest of the house in SD so humid summer dry winters, into the low teens sometimes in the winters and 45 50% in the summers in the house. Outside low teens and highs high humidity like Mn. I close to the border of MN and IA. Now this wood I have coming is kiln tired to furniture grade with is pretty low. Is that to low for an instrument? Perhaps I will have to let the pieces for any prospective instrument build equilibrate in my house a year or two?
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