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From Alex...

I started playing when I was about 11 years old. I begged for a guitar for Christmas, and got an $11 Kent acoustic--it was just terrible, but my parents still have it [laughs]. Then the following Christmas my parents bought me a Conora, which sort of looked like a Gretch Country ...

From hagstrom.org

The Kent Branded instruments were extensively produced in Korea and Japan circa 1960’s. The was no Kent Guitar company, it was a distribution brand for the USA. Distributed in the US by Distributors in New York, Texas, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Kent was a trademark used ...

No, mine is a 6-string, but the guitar is identical except for the shorter headstock, and it uses pegs instead of the steel tail piece. Of course mine is a cherry sunburst as well.

I'd researched the Hagstrom connection, but from what I could tell they never produced any full bodied acoustics ...

Our street had a number of garage sales this past weekend. I usually don't bother with such events, but as it was a beautiful day I decided to take a walk around to the various driveways. At the last house on the block I spotted a cheap vinyl guitar case with a $10 sticker on it. I unzipped it to ...

Awesome! Welcome to the club!

Wow, the stories you hear in this forum are like taking a trip back in time.
Jackson guitars...Rik Emmitt...um, Port Credit?! :wink:
:twisted:

Sorry, my mistake, it was actually Dean guitars, not Jackson that he was hooked up with. My memory is a bit sketchy after all these years. I don't forget ...

BTW, the Explorer was purchased at a small guitar store in Port Credit, Ontario that was run by a guy that was really plugged-in to the guitar world back then. A young Rik Emmett was the store's premiere player back then, The store owner was an early fan of Jackson guitars and forged some kind of ...

Actually everything is original, exactly the way I bought it almost 30 years ago. The only thing that has been replaced was the plastic plate on the input jack which got broken by a careless friend. The Guitar plays fantastically. The action is perfect, strings are nice and low with no fret buzz ...

Well, here she is...

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Dimarzio split coil pickups...

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Extra toggle to split the coils...

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Made in ...

Just found this group and thought I'd join the party. My el degas was purchased new in the early 1980s from a small guitar shop that I used to frequent in Port Credit, Ontario. Its a copy of a black Gibson Explorer, and is very faithful to the original except for the inlaid "el degas" logo on the ...