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.
3,046 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Acacia koa, which grows naturally nowhere but the Hawaiian Islands; medium gold to reddish brown, commonly banded and ribbon-streaked, and frequently curly.
Where it sits
backs and sides and tops, occasionally fingerboards
275 on the soundbox · 29 builders
How dealers write it
Koa · Figured Koa · Flamed Koa · Curly Koa · Striped Koa
How it files
Who’s building with it
Baranik GuitarsBashkin GuitarsBorges GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBranzell GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsDatlen GuitarsDudenbostel GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHuss & DaltonKlein & Kauffman GuitarsLowden GuitarsMannix GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsMicheletti GuitarsOsthoff GuitarsRalph Bown GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaylor GuitarsWayne Henderson 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.
