I'll confess to liking cherry for stock work. I have built a few muzzle loaders, a bunch of pistol grips, and a couple rifle stocks out of it over the years. All of it Pennsylvania black cherry from up in the northern forests. I like the characteristics that Art alluded to, combined with the darkening it takes on as it ages.
So much of the "good" cherry has disappeared into kitchen cabinetry so as to make finding tight grained dense examples a real challenge anymore. I guess I'm partly to blame too, for I executed several yacht interiors out of cherry in recent years. (You should see the one made out of 600 board feet of tightly curled cherry. OMG, I cried every time I switched on the saw!))
