El Degas strat. Year???

[Xander]

Hi guys, this is the first electric I owned. I bought it around 94'. I'm wondering if its Japanese or Korean, and what year it was made in. Any help would be great!

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[charles]

Hi Xander, that's a Korean model, made in the 80's.

[Xander]

Thanks! So which El Degas models from the 80's were still made in japan?

[charles]

Hard to say, none that I know of... once you get into the 80's models everything from El Degas seemed to be from Korea and a lot of models seemed to get cut completely (ES-335 & 345, etc).

Everyone was buying Superstrats in that era so you mostly see that sort of thing, but there were some Jes Paul, SG, and Ric copies as well.

[Barry]

The 70's seems to be the "golden age" for ED guitars and basses out of Japan.
But there seems to be a lot of these Korean models about just lately. Many of the early manufactured MIK's are quite good instruments, but not on the same level as the MIJ's IMHO.