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Sure thing, but no guarantees. Actually, I was trying to tell from the photo of the guitar you posted, but there's not enough detail to distinguish the grain pattern.

 

Spruce is the most common top on an acoustic guitar, and typically it has straight line grain pattern like this:

 

 

 

Maple is usually not that uniformly straight grained:

 

 

 

So if you can get a good photo of the grain, we'll take a look at it and see if we can figure it out (no pun intended).

 

 

hm think mine is a spruce top.. pretty sure since the grain is very straight in line. found this guitar now and its same s92 as mine lol.

http://www.robwesley.com/guitars/listings/Epiphone%20Joe%20Pass%20Emperor%20II%20blonde%20spruce%201999/

[i.d. your Epiphone here -- serial # key, guitardater link + factory codes... a worldwide guide >part 3]

Here's a good way to decipher the clues. The original Emperor IIs had maple tops, they changed to spruce tops in 1996. My guess is that JP wanted spruce but they decided to use up the leftover maple Emperor bodies. If yours has a maple top, it's one of those crossover models. If it's a spruce top, you're serial # makes no sense at all.

 

 

 

nice. can i take a close up picture and you tell me if its a maple or spruce top? cuz i have no idea what its made off.

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Hi guys need some help with my guitar since the serial is very strange.. it cant be made 92 since joe pass signature model came when he died 94? it has no sticker inside the fhole aswell... and if its a 1999 how do you put toghetter the other numbers?

here comes pictures

regards Magnus