Mickeyrouse
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Unfirtunately
Unfortunately, after these shots the guitar was refinished. I agree the color of the wood looks like maple, but the grain looked (at the time, to my unschooled eye) like mahogany. I know that mahagony can lighten if exposed to air very long, and the candy apple auto paint had been removed 5-6 years prior to these pics. After all this discussion, I'm more in the re-issue camp on this. Since I more or less knew this guitar for 8 years or so before I acquired it in '79, I have always had a hard time thinking why anyone would want to "improve" a guitar that at the time would have been still somewhat new. But then again, we're talking musicians here, and musicians have done stranger things- just ask me.
I'm still seeing a maple top in this photo.
Got another photo of the top clearly showing mahogany? :hmm
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