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Interesting... There seems to be (at least) 3 models of the guitar:

The 680 has the bolt-on neck and the stripe is just painted. Then there's the next one up, like the one you sold, still bolt-on, but the stripe on the body is different wood with the narrow dark stripe in the middle, and the semi ...

I discovered this forum while researching El Degas and I think I have some useful information to contribute. First off, I'm not particularly a fan or collector of El Degas, but my first guitar was an ED, and I still own it after 30 years, so it has a lot of sentimental value. I also think that El ...

I should be able to put up some pictures tomorrow afternoon. BTW, I love your "Impossible Mission" avatar - it seems I spent as much time in 1984 playing that game on the Commodore 64 as I did playing my El Degas - talk about a nostalgia trip! "Another visitor... Stay Awhile... Stay FOREVER!!!" :D ...

Based on a Harmony Central review from an original owner, I think the EL-980 model number for the neck-through guitar is correct. The cheapest version of that model, which is a mahogany body bolt-on without the semi-circles on the headstock and without the added narrow rosewood stripe in the middle ...

That's an El Degas 680. I have an identical one which I got new in Ottawa in 1981, and that's what it said on the receipt ($213!). I just recently got its bass twin for $150 and the sticker on that said 686 - Made in Japan.I will be posting up the story and pictures soon in the Show and Tell section ...