Hi Joezilla's wife!
I heard you visited a mutual friend in Elk City OK recently.
We have the lighter Cherry and same here I don't like the DARK wood!
Cherry has a wide variety of colors, lighter to darker. It's wood!
To me it shows the character of the wood. The dark stain destroys that.
The maple you had is a much more even wood for color and it stains up very evenly.
