NGD Older Washburn D25S N

[Tele Belly]

Just got it today. Not that great with the Washburn's in trying to find what year it is. D25S 9709028. I am thinking a 97 model.

It is beat up but plays beautiful. The tuners are nice and smooth and it has a bright but not tinny tone. This is to me a slope shoulder type guitar but they call it something else I'll bet. They advertised it on Fleabay as a D10S but it turned out to be a D25S.

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[Chiogtr4x]

I had a very similar vintage (early '90's) Washburn D-28 S/N (great looker and player that I bought about 8 years ago for $100, in need of a bridge reset...a great D-28 clone!) stolen out of my home about 2 years ago- I was just getting ready to install a pickup and gig with it....Great guitar, miss it!

Enjoy yours! Heck of a value

 

[P Thought]

Sweet. Nice 'hog stripes on the back there.

 

[nogin007]

Going by the serial number and model number, it was made in September of '97, and has a solid top. Looks good. I have 3-4 Washburns.

 

[Tele Belly]

Thanks! I paid 100.00 for it shipped. It stays in tune all day. Action is near perfect and no string buzz. It is rather beat up though but solid. I thought I would have to do more to it than just a re-string.
Going to be a great camping guitar. Not many of these older ones for sale that I could find. They Changed the model number now days to WD25 I see.

I need a hard case when I get the cash. Will a regular dreadnaught case work?

 

[Tele Belly]

Does anyone know where it was made? I am thinking Korea.

 

[Hiker]

Thanks! I paid 100.00 for it shipped. It stays in tune all day. Action is near perfect and no string buzz. It is rather beat up though but solid. I thought I would have to do more to it than just a re-string.
Going to be a great camping guitar. Not many of these older ones for sale that I could find. They Changed the model number now days to WD25 I see.

I need a hard case when I get the cash. Will a regular dreadnaught case work?

Happy New Guitar Day!

Wait, you paid that for it shipped, and it arrived in a 'wooden' coffin-looking container?

I'll never forget receiving a saxophone from a pawn shop seller on ebay in a roomy box with nothing else inside. It bounced around for sure!

 

[Chiogtr4x]

Thanks! I paid 100.00 for it shipped. It stays in tune all day. Action is near perfect and no string buzz. It is rather beat up though but solid. I thought I would have to do more to it than just a re-string.
Going to be a great camping guitar. Not many of these older ones for sale that I could find. They Changed the model number now days to WD25 I see.

I need a hard case when I get the cash. Will a regular dreadnaught case work?[/QUOTE]

If yours is like my D-28 S/N was you may want to try out a case 'in person' I only say this as the body is larger than my Martin dread and did not fit in that case (which admittedly could be form-fitting to Martin dreads...)
Also a slightly weird thing about the Washburn, the soundhole is smaller- I found this out as it did not fit a soundhole pickup that I bought as a backup/spare- that pickup fit in the Martin (even though it has it's own pickup, I tried it in the soundhole)

 

[Tele Belly]

Happy New Guitar Day!

Wait, you paid that for it shipped, and it arrived in a 'wooden' coffin-looking container?

I'll never forget receiving a saxophone from a pawn shop seller on ebay in a roomy box with nothing else inside. It bounced around for sure!

It's romantic to me. It came from a little thrift store in a little town in New Hampshire. Across the street is a little church replete with steeple. I'm thinking an Alice's Restaurant type situation. Someone said make the case out of the box it came in. Hmm.

Thanks for the heads up on the pickup.

 

[Brian J.]

nice, i dig that crazy coffin shipping container.

 

[Tele Belly]

Looks like something out of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and it smells like the Great North East USA.

 

[rjes]

Washburn makes great guitars for the money

 

[philpm]

I think in '97, they were being made in Indonesia. Not too long after that is when they went to Chinese manufacture.

Nice looking guitar, and at a hell of a nice price. I have a newer Washie mini-jumbo, solid cedar top over mahogany, and it is a beautiful sounding guitar.

 

[Tele Belly]

Thanks, I like the guitar a lot. I owned a guild D15 from 1983 until 2008. I've owned all manor of inexpensive acoustics sice then and found I like the Washburn best. I did like my old F series Epiphone Japan model with the bolt on neck too.

Is this Washburn considered a Southern Jumbo?

 

[philpm]

Thanks, I like the guitar a lot. I owned a guild D15 from 1983 until 2008. I've owned all manor of inexpensive acoustics sice then and found I like the Washburn best. I did like my old F series Epiphone Japan model with the bolt on neck too.

Is this Washburn considered a Southern Jumbo?

The D would denote a dreadnought shape, but it definitely does look to have more of an SJ profile to it.

 

[Tele Belly]

To me it looks like a giant pear with a neck on it. Part of it's charm I guess.