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.
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The Wood Key
Dalbergia spruceana, from southern Venezuela through northern and northeastern Brazil to Bolivia; orange to reddish brown with darker contrasting streaks over a lighter yellowish sapwood, and close enough to Brazilian rosewood in both face and end grain that the two are hard to separate by eye.
Where it sits
backs and sides
7 on the soundbox · 6 builders
How dealers write it
Amazon Rosewood
How it files
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · 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.
