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
Dalbergia nigra, endemic to Brazil's Atlantic forest; chocolate through reddish and purplish brown with dark streaks that sometimes web across the plate, against a sharply lighter sapwood.
Where it sits
backs and sides, occasionally fingerboards and necks
178 on the soundbox · 44 builders
How dealers write it
Brazilian Rosewood
How it files
Who’s building with it
Applegate GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBashkin GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBoswell GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCollings GuitarsDoerr GuitarsDudenbostel GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHuss & DaltonKlein & Kauffman GuitarsKostal GuitarsKraut GuitarsLowden GuitarsMaingard GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcCollum GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsMicheletti GuitarsNashville Guitar CompanyNowland GuitarsOlson GuitarsOsthoff GuitarsPreston Thompson GuitarsRalph Bown GuitarsRasmussen GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySexauer GuitarsStevens Custom GuitarsStrahm GuitarsTaran GuitarsTaylor GuitarsTippin GuitarsWayne Henderson GuitarsWingert Guitars
CITES Appendix Ithe strictest listing · 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.
