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Article: European cherry is a rare and valuable cabinetry wood.(Wood of the Month)
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- Wood & Wood Products
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- May 1, 2004
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American black cherry has no shortage of fans around the world, but the cherry from Europe also earns high praise as a fine cabinetry wood. The only major problem with European cherry is that supplies are somewhat limited.
"The cherry used and sought after by the woodworking industry is not cultivated in the garden, but is the wild-growing tree occurring in forest stands," write the editors of Veneers, a Fritz Kohl Handbook by Interwood Forest Products Inc., of Shelbyville, KY.
The wood has a warm, reddish-orange color often with green streaks. Interwood markets the wood under the trademark Kohl cherry.
European cherry is from Prunus avium, or ...