Raw Material
Wood is a living and evolving material.
If well treated, it restores warmth and well-being.
CHERRY
The solid wood is that portion of the wood
extracted from the heartwood, the innermost part of the trunk.
It also lends itself very well to machining on machine tools.
Calligaro Category: Indoor furniture. Doors, shelves. Wooden floors. Slats for barrels.
European cherry - American cherry
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FINISH: MATT
FEATURES:
- 15 mm
- 20 mm
- on request
- Birch
- Spruce
- veneered in wood
Nominal thickness SUPPORTED
Multilayer
SOLID WOOD nominal thickness
- 17 mm
- 22 mm
- 32 mm
- 42 mm
- on request
Specific weight
Dimensions
- Massive beams
- 10 x 10
- 15 x 15
- 20 x 20
- Maximum length 13 m
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Cherry Wood: Characteristics and Applications
Lightweight and strong
The red color of the fruit and its sweet flavor evoke associations with pleasure, love and the forbidden. For this reason, as they say, stolen cherries are the tastiest. Not a little of this sensual strength also seems to be hidden in the red and brown-smelling wood, which infuses hospitality and warmth. With the kernels, placed in large numbers in linen sacks, the heat of the stove can be brought into the cold winter beds. From the Biedermeier and Art Nouveau period, precious wood motivated the shapes of elegant furniture.
It can reach up to 30 meters in height and is particularly used in northern Italy as solid wood (solid wood is that portion of the wood that is extracted from the heartwood, the innermost part of the trunk). It also lends itself very well to machining on machine tools.
Types
There are two types of cherry, which do not show substantial differences in mechanical and technological properties:
European cherry , a precious wood with a reddish grain that tends to accentuate in contact with the air, giving the product (furniture, furnishing accessory, floor ...) a classy appearance.
American cherry , lighter, cheaper and easily available than the European one, has a darker color and a more regular structure (fewer knots and a straighter grain) which makes it preferable for flooring.
Uses
Among the numerous uses to which this material lends itself, the main ones are:
- Interior furniture details and finishes.
- Details and finishes of furnishing accessories such as doors, shelves, bottle holders, magazine racks, etc.
- Wooden floors.
- Slats for barrels.
- Toys, musical instruments and pipe straws.
- Decorative veneers and fine paneling.
- Quality cabinetry.
- Firewood.
Pros and Cons
- Machinability and ease of cutting (see characteristics).
- Aptitude for finishing (see characteristics).
- Good heat development and little smoke.
- Low cleavage: cherry is difficult to split in the direction of the fibers.
- Quite high price: it is difficult to find furniture and furnishing accessories completely made of cherry.
Curiosity
In common parlance, we speak of light and dark cherry: the light refers to the European essence, which ranges from brown-pink to light-yellowish-orange and the dark one refers to the American cherry, with a color ranging from from brown to deep red.
In Europe, the cherry tree symbolizes purity and innocence.
| Category / Family / Name | Prunus avium cerasus. |
| Origin | Europe - North America |
| Color | Narrow sapwood with yellowish-white color. |
| Weaving | Resembles oak in texture. |
| Mass (after seasoning) | - Lightweight (450 Kg / m2) |
| Durability | - Poor |
| Stability | ++ Fair |
| Machinability | ++ Good |
| Hardness | + Diesceta |
| Mechanical characteristics | - Axial 51 N / mm2, bending 110 N / mm2 |
| Gluing | +++ Great |
| Painting | ++ Good |
| Legend | - Poor - Moderate + Fair ++ Good +++ Excellent |
Cherry is a hard, compact and porous wood. Versatile and functional
Equipped with an extremely significant specific weight, it exploits this feature to lend itself to the creation of furniture and other elements of the house (the aforementioned doors and windows) with a massive and imposing structure. Drying does not present any particular problems, except the need for ordinary prophylaxis against cracks and splits.
The only significant drawback is the slowness of this wood to dry satisfactorily; and obviously this prerogative exposes the raw material to greater whitening risks; for this reason, the seasoning of cherry wood must be carried out in suitable environments and followed step by step, in order to avoid that the good resistance to deformation of its fibers is nullified by the prolonged persistence of humidity inside them. Alternatively, artificial drying is often used, which however risks compromising the original color of the wood.
Also for this reason, the naturally dried cherry is particularly valuable and sought after.
Cherry Wood: Characteristics and Applications
Lightweight and strong
The red color of the fruit and its sweet flavor evoke associations with pleasure, love and the forbidden. For this reason, as they say, stolen cherries are the tastiest. Not a little of this sensual strength also seems to be hidden in the red and brown-smelling wood, which infuses hospitality and warmth. With the kernels, placed in large numbers in linen sacks, the heat of the stove can be brought into the cold winter beds. From the Biedermeier and Art Nouveau period, precious wood motivated the shapes of elegant furniture.
It can reach up to 30 meters in height and is particularly used in northern Italy as solid wood (solid wood is that portion of the wood that is extracted from the heartwood, the innermost part of the trunk). It also lends itself very well to machining on machine tools.
Types
There are two types of cherry, which do not show substantial differences in mechanical and technological properties:
European cherry , a precious wood with a reddish grain that tends to accentuate in contact with the air, giving the product (furniture, furnishing accessory, floor ...) a classy appearance.
American cherry , lighter, cheaper and easily available than the European one, has a darker color and a more regular structure (fewer knots and a straighter grain) which makes it preferable for flooring.
Uses
Among the numerous uses to which this material lends itself, the main ones are:
- Interior furniture details and finishes.
- Details and finishes of furnishing accessories such as doors, shelves, bottle holders, magazine racks, etc.
- Wooden floors.
- Slats for barrels.
- Toys, musical instruments and pipe straws.
- Decorative veneers and fine paneling.
- Quality cabinetry.
- Firewood.
Pros and Cons
- Machinability and ease of cutting (see characteristics).
- Aptitude for finishing (see characteristics).
- Good heat development and little smoke.
- Low cleavage: cherry is difficult to split in the direction of the fibers.
- Quite high price: it is difficult to find furniture and furnishing accessories completely made of cherry.
Curiosity
In common parlance, we speak of light and dark cherry: the light refers to the European essence, which ranges from brown-pink to light-yellowish-orange and the dark one refers to the American cherry, with a color ranging from from brown to deep red.
In Europe, the cherry tree symbolizes purity and innocence.
| Category / Family / Name | Prunus avium cerasus. |
| Origin | Europe - North America |
| Color | Narrow sapwood with yellowish-white color. |
| Weaving | Resembles oak in texture. |
| Mass (after seasoning) | - Lightweight (450 Kg / m2) |
| Durability | - Poor |
| Stability | ++ Fair |
| Machinability | ++ Good |
| Hardness | + Diesceta |
| Mechanical characteristics | - Axial 51 N / mm2, bending 110 N / mm2 |
| Gluing | +++ Great |
| Painting | ++ Good |
| Legend | - Poor - Moderate + Fair ++ Good +++ Excellent |
Cherry is a hard, compact and porous wood. Versatile and functional
Equipped with an extremely significant specific weight, it exploits this feature to lend itself to the creation of furniture and other elements of the house (the aforementioned doors and windows) with a massive and imposing structure. Drying does not present any particular problems, except the need for ordinary prophylaxis against cracks and splits.
The only significant drawback is the slowness of this wood to dry satisfactorily; and obviously this prerogative exposes the raw material to greater whitening risks; for this reason, the seasoning of cherry wood must be carried out in suitable environments and followed step by step, in order to avoid that the good resistance to deformation of its fibers is nullified by the prolonged persistence of humidity inside them. Alternatively, artificial drying is often used, which however risks compromising the original color of the wood.
Also for this reason, the naturally dried cherry is particularly valuable and sought after.
