All Hog D-25 Vs Spruce top...thats not it though.....

[MojoTooth]

I didnt want to jump to a conclusion either until Hans or someone else had commented but it looked like a Corona with TransParent Red finish...beautiful.

As for wood I prefer

 

[GardMan]

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???

By '77 "M" meant Mahogany color stained top, like D25CH=Cherry, D25Br=Brown, D25Nt=Natural.
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've got a '74 D-25M... M stands for mahogany-stained spruce top. Sounds great in DADGAD! Dave

 

[adorshki]

I've got a '74 D-25M... M stands for mahogany-stained spruce top. Sounds great in DADGAD! Dave

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.

 

[onewilyfool]

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?

 

[GardMan]

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?

Westerly D-25s would be solid mahogany flat-backs until ~ early '73. My current understanding is that they then were arched laminated mahogany thru the remainder of their Westerly years, and changed back to flat in Corona (early '00s?)...