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
Juglans regia, native from eastern Türkiye through to the western Himalaya and cultivated across Europe long enough that Italian, English, French, European, Circassian and Persian walnut all name this one species by provenance rather than by botany; pale brown to dark chocolate brown with darker streaks and sometimes a grey, purple or reddish cast, over nearly white sapwood.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Italian Walnut
How it files
Who’s building with it
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.
