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MADE IN JAPAN stamped on 4 bolt bracket:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/skeeterbite/el_Degas_Marauder_4.jpg


el Degas in gold lettering on headstock (tuners are replacements, so I didn't take their pix);

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/skeeterbite/el_Degas_Marauder_5.jpg ...

Thanks - I know what you mean, but I've never seen a Fender or Squier bass that came without a pickguard - maybe it all just comes down to the fact that they could sell them cheaper. If nothing else, it would be easy to upgrade the pups and add a tortoise shell pick guard to make it schmancy.

Had a ...

Ummmm............ since I'm here..............

In my guitar collection picture you'll see a Squier Precision bass, standard black with Precision and Jazz pups as well. I think they were calling it a P-J Special. I bought it new about 10 - 12 years ago. Plays and sounds great.............. but there ...

Bingo! My friend who was looking this over for me had worked in a music store as a teenager/early twentysomething, and he had suggested it was a copy of a Gibson model - he thought a Gibson Grabber, but I looked that up and it was a bass. He was closer than he thought. The Marauder picture is right ...

Sorry I've been absent - work, etc. the usual excuses.

Here's that weird guitar I mentioned a few weeks back:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q87/skeeterbite/eldegasmysteryguitar.jpg



A friend who knows guitars sez he thinks this is an el degas guitar - the neck pickup encased in clear ...

Hello.

Yesterday I bought a guitar at a garage sale for $20 (Canadian). I was in a hurry to go out of town, so I didn't look at it closely - it was pretty beat up but played OK, so I bought it, threw it in my trunk and didn't get a good look at it until I got home last night.

The headstock said ...