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
Dalbergia latifolia, native to India, Nepal and Java and widely planted across South and Southeast Asia; golden through deep purplish brown with darker streaks, over a sharply demarcated pale sapwood.
Where it sits
backs and sides, occasionally fingerboards, necks and tops
681 on the soundbox · 36 builders
How dealers write it
East Indian Rosewood · Indian Rosewood · Figured East Indian Rosewood · Curly East Indian Rosewood · Maple & Rosewood · Master Grade East Indian Rosewood
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsAvalon GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBrook GuitarsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHeiden Stringed InstrumentsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsLowden GuitarsLPD GuitarsMannix GuitarsMartin GuitarsMaxmonte GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsNorthwood GuitarsO'Gorman GuitarsOlson GuitarsOska Burman GuitarsPagelli GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPetros GuitarsRockbridge Guitar Co.Ryan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaylor GuitarsWingert Guitars
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · 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.
