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
Sequoia sempervirens, from a coastal strip about 450 miles long running from the extreme southwest corner of Oregon into southern Monterey County, California; light pinkish to deep reddish brown.
Where it sits
tops
143 on the soundbox · 24 builders
How dealers write it
Sinker Redwood · Redwood · Flamed Redwood · Tunnel 13 Redwood · Curly Redwood
How it files
Who’s building with it
Bashkin GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBoswell GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCarmel Guitar CompanyCollings GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsJulien Sublet GuitarsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMaxmonte GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsMicheletti GuitarsO'Gorman GuitarsPagelli GuitarsPetros GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaylor Guitars
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.
