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
Swietenia macrophylla, growing from Mexico through Central America into Brazil, Bolivia and Peru; pale pinkish to reddish brown, darkening with age, often with ripple marks across flatsawn faces.
Where it sits
backs and sides and necks, occasionally tops
298 on the soundbox · 25 builders
How dealers write it
Honduran Mahogany · Sinker Mahogany · Figured Honduran Mahogany · "The Tree" Mahogany · Curly Honduran Mahogany · Fiddleback Honduran Mahogany · Quilted Honduran Mahogany · Flamed Honduran Mahogany
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsBashkin GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCirca GuitarsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHatcher GuitarsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonJewitt GuitarsKlein & Kauffman GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcNally GuitarsOlson GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPre-War Guitars Co.Preston Thompson GuitarsPRSSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyWandering Boy Guitars
CITES Appendix IIfor some origins · 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.
