What wood do I choose

You can get cherry veneer plywood, and then use some solid cherry for trimming it out.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

If cost is a factor I would use birch veneer plywood and soild birch.Then stain it cherry.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

What Gary said.

-- Maplewood, MN

what tom said ! lol or gary

My suggestion would be to see about determining what would the “cherry colored” furniture is constructed of. Then as the guys here mentioned, match the stain to the color of the other furniture.
While building things in cherry (plywood and solid as Gary mentioned) is impressive, and woodworkers love it, you may find a more economical wood. For example, my wife really likes a dresser stained dark cherry that we have in our bedroom. I didn’t build it, but determined it was made of alder. Alder is much cheaper than cherry-so the woman of the house may be more impressed with the finished color, and not the type of wood (as us woodjocks would be). But after all, our better half is the ultimate customer!
Hope this helps.

-- Gerry

Hi Hutch,

I agree with Gary’s suggestion. You can try to stain other woods to match cherry but it is hard to do. In my opinion if you want the look of cherry you need to go with cherry. You can get a superficial resemblance to cherry using dyes and stains but they will not develop the patina that cherry does as it ages.

Hope this helps.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Hutch,

I was at Hardwood Lumber Co. in Dallas a few days ago and they have 4/4 Cherry for $3.95 bd ft. It’s all around 6’ in length. It looked nice. At that price, I’d go with Cherry. They also had 4/4 Ash, again 6’ lengths, for $2.50 bd ft.

-- NorthWoodsMan

Thanks all.

I had not found a place in dallas for hardwoods yet. Hardwood Lumber is only about 30 miles from my house. Thanks NorthWoodsMan

Hutch

-- Hutch - North Dallas, Tx - Safety First

When picking a wood and stain remember that it will age different then the other peice. For this reason as stated above, try and match the wood type if possible. Veneer can be used and as long as there are not too many curves will be fairly straight forward.