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 grown in the Italian Alps — the same species as European and German spruce, separated here by where it was cut rather than by botany.
Where it sits
tops
74 on the soundbox · 19 builders
How dealers write it
Italian Spruce · Bearclaw Italian SPruce · Italian Alpine Spruce · Torrefied Italian Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Baranik GuitarsBashkin GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBowerman GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHuss & DaltonLame Horse InstrumentsLeach GuitarsMartin GuitarsMaxmonte GuitarsMcCollum GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsOsthoff GuitarsRasmussen GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyStrahm GuitarsTaran GuitarsWingert 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.
