Comparison pics of two Corona D25s, CPM000097 (previously posted) followed by CPM000236.
Sheen and texture of clear coat remarkably similar - perhaps the entire production run of Corona D25s - or
this particular color perhaps? - was completed in a short period of time.
It wouldn't surprise me (about maybe making all of 'em at once), as short as the "model life" was in Corona, and suspect now that it was the model they used to "ramp up" much the same way Oxnard did with (perhaps not-so-coincidentally)
satin-finished M20's. However as I composed this post and found that Surf Green example between these 2 Crimson Transparents, realized it was pretty unlikely that they made the whole run at once, at least not to the exclusion of other model production.
Seems more likely they would do a run here and there as orders reached a production level demand or maybe even just kept a small steady stream running?
I guess it all depends on how Corona was set up.
For sure you'd want to be able to fill orders for as many models as you could, as quickly as possible, but did they have the ability to make several models at once or was there something that made that impractical?
I'd also expect the spray booth usage would have been maximized for colors, such that several different models all destined for same color could be sprayed during the same "run" at the booth.
So crank out a bunch of jumbos and dreads in HG Natural or 'burst and then do run of D25's in Satin again...
Just "logic-ing" the thing out, but could easily be wrong..
I've seen more of these red ones than anything else, a light blue example has been bouncing around for sale off and on for several years
Betcha that's the Surf Green, think we've seen 3 different examples including one that was advertised as genuine New Old Stock that went for I think $900?, after starting with a $1200.00 BIN (!) about 3 or 4 years back?
have seen several white instruments - one
of which I bought, one which slipped away,
Pretty sure that must have been "Honey Blonde", it looked pretty white under the right lighting, but yeah as rare as the Surf Green
and exactly one odd but striking antique burst that also
eluded me - or I probably would have owned seven or eight of these by now.
Don't recall ever seeing on of those in 'burst but wonder if that's the "Brown Transparent"?
There's what appears to be
a natural hog (or "Cherry Brown" per the seller's description) example that's been on Reverb for quite some time.
https://reverb.com/item/12603774-guild-d25-2003-cherry-brown
Oh wow, that's gotta be the "Amber"!
First time I've ever seen one!:
But a "tough call", because in one playing clip photo it does look like it could be legitimately Brown, it's so dark, but I'd expect the brown to be even darker in those other shots.
Also that one, s/n 366, has that unusual headstock logo Ralf mentions in that other thread:
OK, think this one's gotta be "Brown" because it sure as you-know-where ain't "Cherry" or "Crimson Trans":
OK,
maybe "Crimson Transparent" if it's been significantly "color-shifted" through all its digital iterations, but still think it's "too yellow" to be Crismon:
Looks distinctively different than the Crimsons I can see, which definitely do get very bright red like a traditional "Cherry" under sunlight, like the shoulders of the samples in Bonneville's pics, in other pics I've seen.
I looked this up yesterday but decided not to veer too far afield at the time.
But for the sake of celebrating the virtues of Corona D25's, now it seems like a good time to post Ralf's post #28 from here:
http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?167848-Sea-foam-green-Acoustic/page2 ,
because it's the only recap of the "official color names" for Corona D25's that I've ever seen.
That "dark blue" color was officially called "Sapphire Blue Transparent".
Actually what some shops called "Seafoam Green" on the D25 was officially called "Surf Green". Corona had no color written on the labels of the guitars. I guess Fender dealers started to look what Fender color looked similar and called them with sometimes incorrect names. At least I found the "official" color codes for 2003 D-25 models as follows: (The "Chrimson" was clearly wrongly spelled below, it should be "Crimson Red Transparent" I think)
(720) Amber,
(727) Sapphire Blue Transparent,
(732) Brown Transparent,
(738) Chrimson Transparent,
(757) Surf Green,
(767) Honey Blonde
Ralf
Along with a couple of examples since a lot of the links in that older thread are dead now anyway:
Steffan's Honey Blonde:
Sapphire Blue Transparent:
(showed the neck because I think it shows the actual color the best, more pics here:
https://reverb.com/item/1424379-used-guild-d25-blue-satin-finish
Unfortunately also looks like an MIRC piece so can't see s/n to confirm if they shot different colors between Bonneville's 2 Crimson Transparents)
Oh wait, the Surf Green subject of the tread I linked was cited as s/n CPM000151; so they DID shoot different colors between those 2, assuming they didn't just randomly pull a certain number off the line for each color and then shoot colors successively and out of s/n sequence. But suspect more likely they shot "batches" of a given color and they stayed roughly in s/n order of production.
Surf Green is so rare that I can only find a couple of images:
Oh wow, in fact that one's in Europe and also listed as NOS:
$1950 euros(!!!)
https://www.station-musicshop.de/Guild-D25-Sea-Foam-Green-Dreadnought/en
