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 from central Europe; the trade's "German spruce" and "European spruce" are the same wood under different names.
Where it sits
tops
73 on the soundbox · 17 builders
How dealers write it
German Spruce · Bearclaw German Spruce · Vintage German Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Bourgeois GuitarsCirca GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsDatlen GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGoodall GuitarsKeystone Stringed InstrumentsKinscherff GuitarsKlein & Kauffman GuitarsKostal GuitarsMaingard GuitarsMcNally GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySexauer 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.
