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Hi all,

Long story short, a friend of mine gave me this El Dégas 12-String guitar. She's been holding to it for a long time. It was her brother's before he passed away. It seams to be in very good condition. The frets don't even show any signs of wear. There's a sticker on the back of the head that shows it was purchased at a school. So her brother probably didn't play that much.

The model is MT15R. From what I could gather from this forum, MT is for Martin clone.
- Is R for rosewood?
- Does anybody have an idea around what years this model was produced?
- The guitar is missing one pin, one has a black dot and the other ones are white. Which one would be the original?

There is another post about a MT15 here but no pictures were ever posted. So here you are .

Full gallery here.

The MT prefix does denote this model as a Martin copy.
I figure you are right that the R likely does stand for Rosewood. The back & sides of the body may be rosewood, or perhaps they had/planned different models in regards to the wood on the fingerboard.

You can safely replace any or all of the pins - in my experience they are usually pretty cheap plastic ones so there are better options out there. I would expect the plain (no dot) ones are the originals but I'm not 100% on that.