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.
3,046 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Swietenia macrophylla, native from southern Mexico through Central America and into the Amazon basin of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil — “Brazilian” names one end of a much wider range rather than a separate wood; heartwood pale pinkish brown to darker reddish brown that deepens with exposure, medium and uniform in texture.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Brazilian Mahogany
How it files
Who’s building with it
CITES Appendix IIfor some origins · 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.
