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.
3,046 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today
The Wood Key
Pterocarpus spp. — a genus of roughly 37 species across the tropics, so “padauk” covers at least two different woods: African padauk (P. soyauxii), a vivid reddish orange when cut that darkens substantially to reddish or purplish brown, and Burmese padauk (P. macrocarpus), less red and running pale golden yellow to reddish brown over distinct yellow sapwood.
Where it sits
backs and sides and necks
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Padauk
How it files
Who’s building with it
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.
