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
Juglans — black walnut in eastern North America, English walnut across Europe and southwest Asia, claro in California; pale through dark chocolate brown with darker streaks and sometimes a grey or purple cast.
Where it sits
backs and sides, occasionally necks and tops
68 on the soundbox · 22 builders
How dealers write it
Walnut · Figured Walnut · Flamed Walnut
How it files
Who’s building with it
Avenir GuitarsBourgeois GuitarsBrook GuitarsCollings GuitarsFleishman InstrumentsFroggy Bottom GuitarsGallagher GuitarsGillander GuitarsHuss & DaltonIrvin GuitarsJulien Sublet GuitarsLowden GuitarsMartin GuitarsMcElroy GuitarsMcNally GuitarsMcPherson GuitarsPagelli GuitarsPellerin GuitarsPetros GuitarsSanta Cruz Guitar CompanySpohn GuitarsTaylor 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.
