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Original Post By:
Tom A.
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Date: 9/21/2015 6:17:16 PM |
| last year I took out a cherry tree and thought it might be cool if I could use that wood for an ukulele. I have a couple half round chunks. The trunk was not perfectly round so the radius for a quarter sawn plank would be 4-5" maybe. If a plank was cut parallel to the flat part of the half round I've got about 15," Plenty for a backboard on a tenor (I think). Do you folks think this is a waste of time? Is cherry wood OK for ukes or so-so? Any comments are welcome. even if you say forget about it! |
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Posted By:
Ukeguy
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Date: 9/21/2015 7:27:49 PM |
Tom, I've always loved the way that cherry wood looks but I've never played an instrument with a cherry body. Plenty of banjos with cherry necks and rims, but no 'ukuleles or guitars. Loprinzi does make an all cherry wood 'uke and I've always wanted to try one. Maybe someone on the old board can chime in. Good luck, and if you make it, I'd love to see photos.
--Mark
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Posted By:
Dave Means
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Date: 9/22/2015 12:32:40 PM |
Just about any hardwood can be made into a decent-sounding instrument if the builder knows how to deal with its characteristics... with the exception of a few woods that have very high internal damping, like oak, for example. There are ways that a luthier can evaluate the stiffness to weight ratio and internal damping of an individual sample and use that information to decide the thickness of the plates and how to brace them.
I've never built a cherry uke because none of my customers ever asked for one, but don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
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Posted By:
Tom B.
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Date: 9/22/2015 2:38:05 PM
(Updated: 9/22/2015 2:38:46 PM)
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Martin makes one:
https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/ukuleles/item/110-3-cherry-uke.html
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