The Atlas

The Wood Key

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

Asian Rosewood

hardwood · in the Rosewood family

A trade label rather than a species: Dalbergia oliveri is sold as Asian rosewood alongside Burmese and Laos rosewood, D. cochinchinensis goes by the same name as often as by Siamese rosewood, and the label alone cannot decide which Dalbergia is in front of you.

Where it sits

backs and sides

2 on the soundbox · 2 builders

How dealers write it

Asian Rosewood

How it files

20 codes13 species1 family

Who’s building with it

McPherson GuitarsTippin Guitars

CITES status depends on the speciesand this name does not say which · as of 2026-08-09

Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manualthe 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.