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
Acer pseudoplatanus, native from Europe east to the western Caucasus and not native to Britain at all — Derbyshire names an English provenance, not a variety — and it is the sapwood that is used: near white to light golden or reddish brown, fine and even in texture, straight to wavy in grain and sometimes curly or quilted; British “sycamore” is this maple, not the North American sycamore (Platanus).
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Derbyshire Sycamore
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.
