[needlespauls]

Plus top is a flame maple veneer. Plain top has a regular maple grain veneer. Used to be that at some point the updated Standard Plus top specs were a mahogany body and alder/maple or alder top. Before people knew that the Plain top Standard actually had a veneer top, it was assumed that they had a mahogany body and an actual plain maple top. Not true on the plain top. It is now advertised as solid mahogany body on both guitars. Which means there is no alder or maple cap to speak of. Both have veneers.