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
Coulteria platyloba — long catalogued as Caesalpinia platyloba — from Mexico south through Guatemala to Costa Rica; bright orange to golden brown heartwood that deepens to a redder orange after cutting, over pale white to yellow sapwood, with straight to sometimes interlocked grain and a fine, even texture.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Chakte Viga
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.
