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.
3,046 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Picea abies, native across northern, central and eastern Europe including the Alps and the Carpathians; creamy white with a yellow or red hint — the same species sold as German, Alpine, Italian, Swiss and Carpathian spruce, named for where it grew.
Where it sits
tops
118 on the soundbox · 33 builders
How dealers write it
European Spruce · Moon Spruce · Torrefied European · Bearclaw European Spruce · Master Grade European Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Applegate GuitarsAstrand GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBrook GuitarsCasimi GuitarsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHozen GuitarsJOI GuitarsJulien Sublet GuitarsKraut GuitarsLeGeyt InstrumentsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMichaud Made (Joel Michaud)Pagelli GuitarsPRSRasmussen GuitarsRH GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySchenk GuitarsSpohn GuitarsStevens Custom GuitarsTaran GuitarsTippin 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.
