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
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
109 on the soundbox · 33 builders
How dealers write it
European Spruce · Moon Spruce · Master Grade European Spruce · Bearclaw European Spruce · Torrefied European
How it files
Who’s building with it
Applegate GuitarsAstrand GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBrook GuitarsCasimi GuitarsCollings GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHozen GuitarsKraut GuitarsLeGeyt InstrumentsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMatsuda GuitarsMcGreevy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMichaud Made (Joel Michaud)Pagelli GuitarsPRSRasmussen GuitarsRH GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySchenk GuitarsSpohn GuitarsStevens Custom GuitarsTaran GuitarsTippin GuitarsTom Sands GuitarsTornberg 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.
