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
Diospyros celebica, endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia and found wild nowhere else; a yellow to reddish brown body crossed by darker brown and black stripes, with sharply demarcated pale gold sapwood and grain that runs straight to interlocked.
Where it sits
backs and sides and fingerboards
24 on the soundbox · 9 builders
How dealers write it
Macassar Ebony · Striped Ebony
How it files
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.
