Cherry Lumber

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Retail Price: $1.39

Your Price: $0.97

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Product Species:Cherry (American)

Product Wood Properties:Wood, Hard, Dimensionally stable

Product Regions:Domestic (North America)

American Cherry lumber is avaialble in 4/4, 5/4, and 8/4 thicknesses. InternetLumber offers Cherry in FAS, #1Common, #2Common, and #3Common. Lowers are available in full unit quantities only. Pricing is listed in the drop down menu above right based on order quantity inclusive of all discounting. All lumber orders will ship by common carrier, full length (8' and longer, except lowers which are 4' and longer). All lumber is shipped random widths from. For dimension lumber look under S4S lumber in the millwork section of this site.

American Cherry lumber is sold in the rough or hit-or-missed to 15/16". We also offer S2S and SLR1E (straight line rip one edge), and can gang rip to blanks (minimum 1000BF for gang-rip) at an additional cost. SLR1E requires surfacing prior to ripping and is tallied prior to ripping.

All lumber is kiln dried and meets NHLA grading rules for the grade specified.

Cherry is a prized hardwood lumber species used for the construction of fine furniture, flooring, and wood turnings. Cherry grows as an understory tree in many forests of the eastern United States with the highest concentrations occurring in Pennsylvania, North Carolina through West Virginia and the upper Midwest.

In the 1970s the NHLA relaxed the grading rules for Cherry to preserve what was at the time a rapidly vanishing resource. Due to these rule changes, sapwood and other minor defects are no longer considered in the determination of the grade. In order to clarify to customers the color (red heartwood) content of the boards, heartwood is expressed in percentages of the primary and secondary face; for example 90/50 means that at least 90% of the primary face and 50% of the secondary face are heartwood. All heart cherry is available in limited quantities but commands a significant price premium (often thirty percent or more than 90/50 or 80/50).