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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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black cherry for backing
« on: May 22, 2008, 03:36:36 pm »
i have a billet of black cherry that i could get some nice quarter sawn strips out of.  will quartersawn black cherry work ok for a backing?-Ryan
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Offline david w.

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Re: black cherry for backing
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 03:39:41 pm »
I really dont know so im not much help but i thought black cherry was weak in tension
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Re: black cherry for backing
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 03:51:53 pm »
I wouldn't use cherry as a backing- as David indicated, it's tension-weak. You would be better off using the cherry as a belly wood and backing it with really thin hickory, or something lighter like white ash or elm.
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: black cherry for backing
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 03:56:26 pm »
thanks guys, for some reason i thought it was better in tension and weaker in compression, but now that you said it , it makes sense,
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