Black Cherry Lumber

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Black Cherry Lumber Prunus serotina

Black Cherry is one of my favorite trees. It has beautiful distinctive bark, with dark scaly plates. The delicate twigs have a bitter taste like apple seeds (if you find yourself chewing on one). In the spring, the tree is covered with fragrant white flowers, and the cherries - which mature in late summer - are a favorite food of birds and other wildlife. Because of all this seed production and consumption, (which inevitably leads to seed defecation and distribution), there is a good amount of natural Cherry reproduction in our woods.. Thus we are blessed with lots of nice straight young trees that someday will produce beautiful lumber. The only Cherry trees I cut down are those that are dead, drying, deformed, or damaged. Sometimes they are all four! Anyway, Cherry lumber has beautiful grain, and it's subtle red tinge deepens over time.

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Item #1

Eight Black Cherry boards, minimal cupping.

Length 54" Width 5 1/2" - 6 1/4" Thickness 1", +/- 1/16"

Price $ 75

Item #2

I harvested these 8 boards from a beautiful Cherry tree which grew along the southern edge of Scot's Oak Garden. Unfortunately, it was damaged by in ill-concieved management burn which was set by a novice forest caretaker about 23 years ago. The fire damaged the bark at the base of the tree, which ultimately brought it down. (Cherry, unlike Oak, is not adapted to withstand fires.) By the time I sawed it up, it had already been rotting for a while, so the boards from this tree have a lot of . . . character. Seriously, this wood is fairly rotten, but I think it looks stunningly beautiful. It would not be good for applicaitons that require a great degree of strength, but maybe you can find some other use for this wood.

Length 53" Width 4" - 7" Thickness 1" +/- 1/16"

Price $ 150

Item #3

Six more boards from the same tree as #2. As before, they are fairly rotten, but beautiful. "Pre-oxidized"

Length 52" - 54" Width 4" - 6" Thickness 1" +/- 1"

Price $ 75

Item #4

6 fairly nice Black Cherry boards.

Length 52" - 54" Width 4" - 6 1/2" Thickness 15/16" - 1 1/6"

Price $ 48

Item #12

Series of four boards cut sequentially from the log. Except for the crack near the bottom, they are good quality. Some cupping, which is inevitable in wider boards spanning the heart of the tree.

Length 54" Width 9 1/2" Thickness 15/16"

Price $ 80

Item #13

Series of 5 very nice boards, sawn in sequence from the same log.

Length 50" Width 9 1/4" Thickness 15/16"

Price $ 230

Item #19

Group of 5 Black Cherry boards, they are nice and straight, just a bit of rot. The first and third boards from the left of the photo were adjacent to each other in the log, so they would create a cool "book matched" pattern, if your lumber purveyor had realized this as he was setting them up for their photo-shoot and organized them correctly Oh well . . .

Length 50" - 53" Width 7" - 9 1/4" Thickness 15/16"

Price $ 57

Item #20

5 very nice boards, nice grain.

Length 49" - 55" Width 8 1/4" - 9" Thickness 1"

Price $ 75

Item #21

Group of 6 so-so boards, with some cupping and cracking.

Length 48" - 52" Width 5 1/2" - 9 1/2" Thickness 15/16"

Price $ 50

Item #69

Nice pair of matched Cherry boards, some drama associated with the knots near the upper end. One surface of each board (that shown in the photo) has been surface-jointed.

Length 59" Width 7 1/4" Thickness 3/4" - 78"

Price $ 43