RickS wrote:
Having not yet milled any of the rough cherry, it appears most boards
contain both heartwood and sapwood. Should I be attempting to mill sapwood
surfaces for facing/banding the light colored sheet goods, and milling to
heartwood surfaces for all the exterior show parts? Are there resources on
the net that describe the process of doing this well (i.e. with little
waste)?


Unless you ordered a lot of extra cherry, I think you'd run the risk of
not having the proper mix of heartwood and sapwood to pull this off.

In my opinion, planning all those cuts with those constraints would be
a total nightmare.
What are you going to do if you need a 1 3/4" wide piece for a face
frame, but only have 1 1/2" of heartwood..

If it were me, I wouldn't worry about matching all the colors. To me,
part of the charm of a homemade piece is that the wood does show some
color variation (I use a lot of oak, so I see this in a lot of my
pieces). It's nice, again IMO, not to have some totally uniformed
colored piece, like the MDF furniture at Walmart.