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.
3,047 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Picea engelmannii, from British Columbia and Alberta south through the western United States to Arizona and New Mexico; cream to almost white with an occasional hint of red.
Where it sits
tops
69 on the soundbox · 21 builders
How dealers write it
Engelmann Spruce · Bearclaw Engelmann Spruce · Torrefied Englemann Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Andy Bennett GuitarsAvenir GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCollings GuitarsDudenbostel GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGillander GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHamblin GuitarsHuss & DaltonJewitt GuitarsJulien Sublet GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsNorthwood GuitarsRyan GuitarsSchoenberg GuitarsTaylor GuitarsTreeHouse Guitars
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.
