Cherry Prime Lumber

Taking a consultative approach to best understand the needs and desires of our customers, we are committed to Delivering the Difference with our specialty lumber products. Please Contact your Sales or Specification Representative for a consultation to identify the best product for your application.

Cherry is a beautiful and rich wood with excellent machining properties and a tight grain structure. Fresh milled Cherry heartwood will be pinkish but will darken to a richer reddish brown with oxidation and exposure to light. Durable yet beautiful, Cherry is the ideal wood for a classic and luxurious look.

Why Prime Cherry?

• Rich and timeless color
• Easily workable
• High heartwood content for rich red look
• Domestically harvested and abundant
• Ideal for doors, cabinetry, millwork or furniture

Benefits of Plain Sawn Lumber:

Cutting tangentially through the tree’s growth rings, Plain Sawn Cherry utilizes the entire log while minimizing waste. The result is a grain pattern that displays a very traditional, dramatic cathedral pattern.

Contact your Sales or Specifications Representative for more information on how to configure Cherry for your project.

Prime Grade Lumber:

Lumber is a living product, responding to its environment as a tree does to its forest. Humidity, age, area and cut will slightly alter the appearance of the lumber product. The product images on this page are a sample of this species, not an exact depiction of the product you will receive.

Prime Grade

Using the National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) Grading standard, Prime Lumber is a premium grade. Developed for the European export market, Prime captures grades within the Select and Better and FAS 1Face and better grades and ensures only the very best production, drying and packaging standards are used to meet the demands of that market.

Plain Sawn Prime Cherry includes a range of boards with minimum yield of 83 1/3% clear-wood cuttings on the best face. Widths start at 6” and wider before kiln drying with lengths 7’ and longer.

Color/Appearance:

Cherry has creamy white sapwood contrasted against a reddish-brown heartwood. Often, the wood will have darker streaks or specks of subtle black colors that can evolve and strengthen over time. Cherry typically has a straight grain with fine texture and golden luster. Cherry wood darkens over time to a richer color especially when there is natural light exposure. Cherry continues to be the classic and elegant choice for American woodworkers and designers with its rich and colorful appearance.

Contact your Sales or Specifications Representative for further information on specific varieties available and best suited for your project.

Workability:

Cherry is an exceptionally workable hardwood lumber. It glues and finishes well. Shrinkage and swelling are minimized on account of its dimensional stability. Some woodworkers report difficulty staining Cherry, and as such sanding is suggested.

Sustainability:

Cherry trees are native to North America and are widely dispersed throughout the Eastern half of the continent. In the United States, Cherry represents 3% of standing hardwood timber and is the 11th most populous hardwood species behind species like oak maple poplar and birch. Harvest rates versus growth rates based on US Forest Service census numbers show that 52% more Cherry is growing annually than is being harvested. Cherry is a sustainably harvested timber.

We recognize the importance of ethically harvested lumber. As our most valuable resource, sustainably harvested forests increase the rate of carbon sequestration and significantly cut carbon emissions. Wood is a renewable and sustainable material for the built environment, requiring less energy than alternatives like concrete or steel. From harvesting to recycling, lumber is the most carbon-efficient choice for building materials. Wood is of the few elements that can increase sustainability in a building’s life cycle, reduce waste, and create positive biophilic health benefits. Increasingly, architects and designers are calling for a return to wood as the prominent basic building material.

As an early adopter of FSC®, we recognize the importance of sustainably harvested lumber. FSC® Certified lumber is available upon request. Contact your Sales or Specifications Representative for more information.

• Drawer Boxes
• Kitchen Cabinets
• Kitchen Cabinet Doors
• Railings
• Signage
• Vanity Cabinets
• Vanity Cabinet Doors
• Wall Paneling
• Passage Doors
• Closets
• Garage Storage
• Interior Millwork
• Treads
• Risers
• Residential Indoor Furniture
• Commercial Indoor Furniture
• Floors