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
Cherry in instrument work is normally Prunus serotina, black cherry, from eastern North America, with European shops instead using Prunus avium, wild cherry; light pinkish brown when freshly cut and darkening to a medium reddish brown on exposure to light, straight-grained and fine-textured, with a narrow band of pale yellowish sapwood standing well clear of the heartwood.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Cherry
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.
