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
Millettia laurentii, from west-central Africa — Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the two Congos; medium brown with a reddish or yellowish cast and nearly black streaks, very coarse in texture, the alternating dense and open bands reading as a fine dark stripe — near-identical panga panga (Millettia stuhlmannii) is routinely sold under the same name.
Where it sits
fingerboards and backs and sides, occasionally necks
8 on the soundbox · 7 builders
How dealers write it
Wenge
How it files
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.
