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.
3,047 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Guibourtia ehie, from west and west-central tropical Africa — Guinea and Ivory Coast through Ghana and Nigeria to Cameroon, Gabon and Congo; yellowish to reddish brown with darker brown, grey or black stripes and a pale yellow sapwood that is clearly demarcated, the grain straight to slightly interlocked and sometimes curly or mottled — also sold as shedua and amazique.
Where it sits
backs and sides
2 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Ovangkol
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.
