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
The dealer wrote "rosewood" and stopped — the one place in this key where we are recording what is not known, since the wood could be any of a dozen Dalbergia or one of several unrelated woods the trade also calls rosewood.
Where it sits
fingerboards and backs and sides, occasionally necks
82 on the soundbox · 20 builders
How dealers write it
Rosewood
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsAvalon GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCirca GuitarsCollings GuitarsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsHuss & DaltonKiso KleinLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsOlson GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyStrahm GuitarsTaylor GuitarsWayne Henderson Guitars
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.
