There's usually only a couple feet of trunk before it branches out and then branches out again. Fruit cherry would be difficult to make lumber from mostly because of the way the trees are pruned to increase the fruit yields. What we don't have around here is the wild cherry that makes such beautiful furniture and is so nice work with. In fact, our town's annual summer celebration is called Cherry Days. I just happen to live in fruit cherry country. Unfortunately, I bought the wood for some flat projects I'm doing and they didn't have any turning blanks of this wood at the time. Plenty of charcter and not much straight grain. The wood also contain allot of small pitch pockets. This wood has much more figure to the grain and a darker cherry color. I just purcashed severl hundred board feet of air-dried rough cut sawmill "cherry" at a local auction that is definatley not black cherry, but appears to be some sort of "fruit" cherry. Both woods seem to machine about the same to me. Orhcard-type cherry has mostly smoother bark with plenty of horizontal scars and relatively short trunks with plenty of limbs. Mature trees have very rough, gray flakey bark. Turns well and machines well for flat work. The black cherry wood we have is generally straight and clear grain, tall timber long trunks with a nice color and smell. Actually, mostly tops from logging or dead trees. I've actually cut a good bit of this cherry over the years for. Northeast Pennsylvania has vast stands of Black Cherry which is highly prized for furniture building, and a good bit of the harvested cherry timber is exported for furniture building.
Interestingly enough, I just experienced the difference myself.
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