Yes cherry will bend OK and Mahogany is OK also. Redwood is about the worst. You can also try steaming it. You can use a presure cooker for the source or a tea kettle on the stove and shoot it throuch a piece of 1/2 copper pipe with the strips in it. You can solder an elbow on it to place it over the steam source. If its thin enough the cherry will bend dry. Get all the pieces together and epoxy them all at once using spring clamps or you can do them one by one - but use epoxy.