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
Machaerium scleroxylon, from Bolivia and neighbouring Brazil and Paraguay — a Machaerium and not a Dalbergia, so not a true rosewood, and the same wood the trade sells as pau ferro, morado and Bolivian rosewood; reddish orange through dark violet-brown with contrasting black streaking, over a pale yellow sapwood clearly demarcated from the heart.
Where it sits
fingerboards and backs and sides
4 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Santos Rosewood
How it files
Who’s building with it
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.
