Nato (pronounced "natto," not like the acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a genuine species of real wood that's used mainly for laminated backs and sides in Yamaha guitars and other brands of instruments built mainly in Asia. I asked about it to a guitar builder friend who told me that it's an okay tonewood when used on its own as a solid wood in guitar-building, but that it's nothing terribly special, either, and there really isn't much motivation to build using it.
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