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
Acer — big-leaf maple on the American side, sycamore maple in Europe; near-white to light golden or reddish brown, and the genus where curly, quilted and birdseye figure are most often found.
Where it sits
backs and sides and necks, occasionally fingerboards and tops
205 on the soundbox · 26 builders
How dealers write it
Maple · Flamed Maple · Quilted Maple · Figured Maple · Flame Maple · Birdseye Maple · Curly Maple · Spalted Maple · Fiddleback Maple · Torrefied Flame Maple
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsKeystone Stringed InstrumentsLowden GuitarsMannix GuitarsMartin GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPRSRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySchwartz GuitarsTaylor GuitarsTreeHouse GuitarsTruncale 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.
