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
An unqualified "mahogany" can be Swietenia from tropical America or Khaya from West Africa — different genera on different continents, and where a listing says which, we file the specific wood instead.
Where it sits
necks and backs and sides, occasionally tops and fingerboards
749 on the soundbox · 34 builders
How dealers write it
Mahogany · Flame Mahogany · Figured Mahogany · Quilted Mahogany · Fiddleback Mahogany · Ribbon Mahogany · Bear Claw Mahogany · Master Grade Mahogany · Torrefied Mahogany
How it files
Who’s building with it
Altman GuitarsAtkin GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFlammang GuitarsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHuss & DaltonKinscherff GuitarsKopp GuitarsLeGeyt InstrumentsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcGreevy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsNashville Guitar CompanyOsthoff GuitarsPreston Thompson GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyStrahm GuitarsTaylor GuitarsTippin GuitarsTom Sands Guitars
CITES status depends on the speciesand this name does not say which · 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.
