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
An unqualified “ebony” means Diospyros, a genus of nearly 800 species of which only a minority yield the black heartwood the word implies, and in this corpus it is overwhelmingly a fingerboard wood that reaches the soundbox only rarely.
Where it sits
fingerboards, occasionally backs and sides
9 on the soundbox · 9 builders
How dealers write it
Ebony · Gabon Ebony · Figured Ebony
How it files
CITES status depends on the speciesand this name does not say which · 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.
