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
Paubrasilia echinata, endemic to the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil, from Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia south into Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro; heartwood yellowish orange to reddish brown, orange-brown when freshly cut and darkening on exposure, sharply demarcated from a whitish-yellow sapwood, with straight or occasionally interlocked grain.
Where it sits
backs and sides
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
Pernambuco
How it files
Who’s building with it
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · as of 2026-08-09
Read from US FWS Public Bulletin PB-26-001 — 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.
