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.
3,047 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 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
997 on the soundbox · 57 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 · Teredo Sitka Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsAvalon GuitarsAvenir GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBeauregard GuitarsBeneteau GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBranzell GuitarsBrook GuitarsBuendia GuitarsCircle StringsCollings GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFleishman InstrumentsFranklin Guitar CompanyFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGillander GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHeiden Stringed InstrumentsHozen GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsKiso KleinKlein & Kauffman GuitarsKopp GuitarsLangejans GuitarsLowden GuitarsLPD GuitarsMaingard GuitarsMannix GuitarsMartin GuitarsMaton GuitarsMcElroy GuitarsMcIlroy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsMichaud Made (Joel Michaud)Nashville Guitar CompanyNigel Forster GuitarsNowland GuitarsOlson GuitarsOska Burman GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPetros GuitarsRalph Bown GuitarsRockbridge Guitar Co.Ryan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySchwartz GuitarsSkytop GuitarsTaylor 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.
