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
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
91 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 GuitarsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGibson GuitarsGoodall GuitarsGreven GuitarsHuss & DaltonLeo PoschLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcCollum GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsPRSRyan 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.
