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
Picea sitchensis, from a narrow coastal band running from southcentral Alaska to northern California; cream to pale yellow, sometimes faintly pink, and the species where bearclaw figure most often turns up.
Where it sits
tops
956 on the soundbox · 51 builders
How dealers write it
Sitka Spruce · Torrefied Sitka · Bearclaw Sitka Spruce · Sinker Sitka Spruce · Bear Claw Sitka Spruce · Torrefied Sitka Spruce · Baked Sitka Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsAvalon GuitarsAvenir GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBranzell GuitarsBrook GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFleishman InstrumentsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGillander GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHatcher GuitarsHeiden Stringed InstrumentsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsJewitt GuitarsKiso KleinKlein & Kauffman GuitarsKopp GuitarsLowden GuitarsLPD GuitarsMaingard GuitarsMannix GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcElroy GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsNashville Guitar CompanyNigel Forster GuitarsNowland GuitarsOlson GuitarsOska Burman GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPetros GuitarsRalph Bown GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaylor GuitarsTippin GuitarsWandering Boy 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.
