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
Tamarindus indica, of long-obscured wild origin — Kew gives the native range as Madagascar and the Comoros — and now planted across the tropics; the boards sold to luthiers are almost always the wide pale-yellow sapwood, commonly spalted into fine dark zone lines, rather than the narrow deep reddish-brown heartwood that forms only in old trees.
Where it sits
backs and sides
2 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Spalted Tamarind · Tamarind
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.
