Cherry for Laminates

[Robertfishes]

took this pic today.. thats a red cedar to the right of the wild cherry tree. we have always pulled the smaller cherry trees up by the roots and burned them if cattle or horses are nearby. there was a bigger one nearby that died a few years ago and we cut it up and burned it. maybe it's really 45' tall?    

[ChristopherO]

From your picture, Robert, that looks like a black cherry to me, which we've always called wild cherry as opposed to the domestic cherry we raised in the orchard.  If the bark is real scaley and the heart wood is a mellow reddish color then you have cherry.  There is, also, the cherry they use the bark off of to back bows that is just beautiful but that is from the west coast from what I've been told.