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Purchased used in August of 2011 From my research, this El Degas Les Paul Copy is from 1971-72 and was made by Ibanez in Japan at the Fujigen Gakki (FujiGen) manufacturing plant. This is the same plant where Ibanez, Greco, Cortez and Burny guitars (among others) were made. The pickups in a lot of these early LP copies were either DeMarzios or, in some cases, Maxons. They were sold as 'white-label' guitars. According to Guitar Stories Vol.1 the el Degas guitars were imported by Buegeleisen & Jacobson (New York) and sold exclusively in Canada.. Many of these LP copies are very rare and highly collectable. Click on the link below and look at the 71-72 year Ibanez catalogs for comparison. Note the fingerboard radius at the body end and the lack of an inlay on the headstock. That's a dead-give-away that it was made prior to 1973. http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-Catalogs/ Below is a link to a well-known expert on all things related to Vintage MIJ Guitars. http://www.chucke.com/appraisal-for-MIJ-guitars.asp
Below is a link to a website devoted to fans of el Degas Guitars. Lots of good info there. Here's some videos of my good friend Brian Johnson playing the hell out of my el Degas.
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