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 retusa, from the drier half of the Central American isthmus between Panama and Mexico; yellow, orange and red shading into brown with black or purple streaks, and it darkens after cutting.
Where it sits
backs and sides, occasionally fingerboards and necks
123 on the soundbox · 24 builders
How dealers write it
Cocobolo
How it files
Who’s building with it
Astrand GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBowerman GuitarsBranzell GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsDatlen GuitarsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGerman GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonLowden GuitarsMaingard GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsPRSRockbridge Guitar Co.Ryan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaran GuitarsTaylor Guitars
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · 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.
