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
Maclura pomifera, native only to the Red River drainage of northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas but planted and naturalised as hedgerow across much of the United States; bright golden yellow when freshly cut, darkening under ultraviolet light to a medium brown, with straight grain and a fine to medium texture.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Osage Orange
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.
