The Atlas
Tonewood Atlas is a live index of what the boutique acoustic world has on its shelves right now, gathered from independent dealers and normalised into one vocabulary. This page is the key to how we read wood — every classification choice, shown.
2,978 listings · 186 dealer codes · 88 species · 21 families, live today
The Wood Key
Red spruce (Picea rubens) from the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, creamy white with a hint of yellow or red and a consistently straight grain — "Adirondack" names a mountain range inside its natural range, not a separate species.
Where it sits
tops, occasionally backs and sides
1,104 on the soundbox · 42 builders
How dealers write it
Adirondack Spruce · Torrefied Adirondack · Torrefied Adirondack Spruce · Master Grade Adirondack Spruce · Bear Claw Adirondack Spruce · Master Grade Adirondack · Torrefied Bearclaw Adirondack Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Altman GuitarsAtkin GuitarsBashkin GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCirca GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsDudenbostel GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFlammang GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGillander GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHeiden Stringed InstrumentsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonKopp GuitarsKostal GuitarsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsNashville Guitar CompanyOsthoff GuitarsPre-War Guitars Co.Preston Thompson GuitarsPRSRockbridge Guitar Co.Ryan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySexauer GuitarsStrahm GuitarsTaran GuitarsTaylor GuitarsTippin GuitarsWayne Henderson GuitarsWingert Guitars
Not CITES-listedchecked, not merely absent · as of 2026-08-09
Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manual — the document. We do not give legal advice and have not checked any individual instrument’s paperwork: this species carries this status on this date. Ask the dealer about documentation.
