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
Dalbergia palo-escrito, endemic to Mexico and recorded from San Luis Potosí and Querétaro south through Morelos and Guerrero to Oaxaca; brown, yellow and purple heartwood carrying wavy, almost black streaks against a clearly differentiated sapwood — the written-on look the Spanish name describes.
Where it sits
backs and sides
6 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Palo Escrito · Palo Escrito Rosewood
How it files
Who’s building with it
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · 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.
