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

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

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.

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.