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.
3,047 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Callitropsis nootkatensis — also published as Chamaecyparis, Cupressus and Xanthocyparis nootkatensis — from the coastal mountains of southern Alaska south through British Columbia to northwest California; light yellow heartwood with whitish to pale yellow sapwood that barely reads as separate, straight-grained and of uniform fine texture, darkening with exposure to light; a cypress, not a true cedar.
Where it sits
tops
2 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Alaskan Cedar · Alaskan Cedar
How it files
Who’s building with it
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.
