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I have been gigging this guitar for the past few weeks. It is fun to play and it really sounds great. I am really glad I discovered these guitars. I had always discounted them based on the bolt on neck and not solid body construction. I was wrong. These things really are something special.

Thanks for the info Barry. I have gigged this guitar a couple times now. It is really fun to play and It gets great old school blues tones.

I just found this.

Ibanez and Greco Nisshin Onpa (Maxon) used a pickup serial number format consisting of 5 numbers up to and including those made through 1977. Ibanez Super 70 pickups have the same serial number format.

* First number = Nisshin Onpa (Maxon) pickup code (1, 2, etc)
* Second ...

I pulled the pickup to check the date codes. The date code stamped on the back of these Maxon pickups is 12724. Still need to do some more researching to determine what these codes mean. I tested them and they are both right around 8.0 K.

Thanks Charles that was fast. I was thinking the same thing about that foam. For now it isn't a problem, but I have had problems in the past.

Any other clues on nailing down the year of this thing? It looks a lot like the Univox that Earl Hooker owned and Magic Sam played in a few classic videos ...

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I was out at the swap meet yesterday and came across this cool Les Paul copy. I knew it was early 70's Japanese but I had never heard of El Degas before. I am on the West Coast and it appears most of these guitars were sold on the East coast. I did however see lots of Aria's, Ibanez and similar with ...