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
An unqualified spruce top: the dealer named the wood but not the species, and Picea covers Sitka, red, Engelmann and Norway spruce, which are not easy to tell apart by colour.
Where it sits
tops, occasionally backs and sides
100 on the soundbox · 23 builders
How dealers write it
Spruce · Torrefied Spruce · Bearclaw Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Atkin GuitarsBaranik GuitarsBoucher GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsCollings GuitarsDoerr GuitarsFairbanks GuitarsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHuss & DaltonLeo PoschLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMatsuda GuitarsMcCollum GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsRyan GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanyTaylor GuitarsTippin GuitarsWayne Henderson 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.
