I've got a '74 D-25M... M stands for mahogany-stained spruce top. Sounds great in DADGAD! Daveadorshki said:By '77 "M" meant Mahogany color stained top, like D25CH=Cherry, D25Br=Brown, D25Nt=Natural.onewilyfool said:I have a 1977 D-25 M, that has a spruce top???? It is the one with the laminated arched back. Very nice sound....but I thought M meant that it had a Hog top???
Not 100% positive but I think a few '74 to 75's might have been labelled that way to indicate a 'hog top. Somebody reported owning one in the last few months but I'm still not 100% convinced he actually verified what the top was made of. IIRC it was a '76 which should have been too late for a 'hog top at all.
I know it wasn't you, Dave, but you might have participated in that thread...I remember telling him to check the grain and coloration from the inside to see if the top matched the sides and he never answered that specific question but still insisted he had a hog-top archback labelled D25M... and I think I've seen that labelling cited a couple of other times too. Maybe just one of those labelling discrepancies Hans mentions from time to time. But I think we're pretty much agreed that by '76 it would have been TOO late and I think that's what the guy said he had, which is why I remained skeptical.GardMan said:I've got a '74 D-25M... M stands for mahogany-stained spruce top. Sounds great in DADGAD! Dave
onewilyfool said:I've seen some local craigslistings where the back was solid for the D-25's, instead of the arched laminate back. Are there any lable indications, or year indications that differentiate between the two?