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
Swietenia macrophylla — “Peruvian” names where the log was cut, not a separate wood, the same big-leaf mahogany also sold as Honduran, Brazilian or genuine mahogany; pale pinkish brown to darker reddish brown, darkening with age, with wild-grown stock generally darker than plantation timber.
Where it sits
necks
1 uses, none on the soundbox
How dealers write it
Peruvian Mahogany
How it files
CITES Appendix IIfor some origins · 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.
