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Been looking for a while...last saw one 2 years ago in Toronto that was in very rough shape.

That would be a rare one alright. I've seen a few SG guitars but no basses.

I see them occasionally, usually on ebay.

Keep checking, best of luck.

One just went up on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... SS:CA:1123

You beat me to it Charles! I just found it.
Go SoulSurgeon!

Too funny I came here looking for info and stumbled upon this post. That eb el degas bass is coming to my house Via ups. I won that auction," very happy" its new home is in southern Ontario.
I will have to post some pics of my 3 el degas lps and 3 sg's. Anyway this is my first post and will be back !! Great site form what i've seen

Hey, welcome dude and congrats!
Look forward to seeing the herd.

I'm looking forward to your show & tell posts, degasdude !

Ya man, where are the pics of my bass that you bought? lol

Here's an old pic of mine, to tide you fellas over



edit: What a terrible photo! It's walnut, even though it looks black in the shot.

Yup, that's what I'm looking for. How's the tone? Fat and Snarly?

SoulSurgeon wrote:Yup, that's what I'm looking for. How's the tone? Fat and Snarly?

Lots of options between the two pickups. There's also a manual string damper you can engage in the bridge. So, you can go from a muted thump all the way to a unleashed snarling dog with a couple of flicks of the wrist.

I'll try to remember to take some more photos and post more info tomorrow.

Please so. Also, let me know as soon as you see one of the market.

Cheers!

I forgot my neck pickup in that bass is dead... so that puts a damper on the sound impressions!

The tone I am able to get out of it is decidedly less snarly as a result. The bass uses a three-position varitone switch which is a bit different than just moving a three-way toggle to go from pickup-to-pickup.

The bridge damper is a weird contraption and its usefulness (in my case) depends on the amount of gain you have on the amp. When played clean, the bass sounds really weak and muted with the damper (which is part of the point, but the way it affects the actual sound output is jarring and drastic), but with a high-gain/distorted/overdriven amp it actually works wonderfully in making the bass snarling but very 'punchy'.