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I have seen the neck through 986 bass with the stamp. The bolt-on 680 guitars I've had didn't have any stamps anywhere in the pickup cavities or in the neck pocket. There was a black magic marker scrawl in the neck pocket of a 680-RD (red) I had which appeared to be either a 19 or 61 but that's a ...

After much on-line onvestigation I'm fairly certain that the 1979- 1981 El Degas 980 neck through guitars distributed in Canada by B & J Music were manufactured by Chushin Gakki in Japan. Of the four 980s I now own, three of them have an inspection stamp in the neck pick-up cavity which is known to ...

Yes...quite the strings on that bass!

Too bad I'm overstocked in the bass dept.....and also that I'm terrible with only 4 strings.....i could have made a triple neck... :)

I would imagine the wood "stripes" on my bolt-on are " painted" . but well done at any rate.
I recently saw a red one of this ...

The "fraternal" twins enjoying a moment in the backyard.

I picked up this EL ... ? off kijiji Hamilton today, which I believe is the middle model between the EL 680 and EL980. Anyone have any thoughts on the actual number? It's an extremely clean instrument and very well set-up by the previous owner. Only upgrades appear to be the Schallers and control ...

Thanks charles .... and also for the pic uploading help!

Well let's see if I can get some pictures working. I believe this is a 1970's era El Degas EL 980 model neck-thru I picked up at Value Village in fall 2014. I finally got around to cleaning it up and putting some strings on it. Just wondering what the stamp in the pic-up cavity means ... if anything ...

Thanks .... I'll muse on that ..... but to be honest I'd be more likely to spend the cash on a guitar since i'm quite possibly the world's worst bass player. A nice piece though!

I "should" have some pictures posted in the next week or so for the EL 980. Thanks for the offer on the bass, but I'm really not much of a bass player ..... although if it was cheap enough maybe I could learn ...

Greetings, I just purchased a twin to the posted EL-980 El Degas neck-thru guitar at the local Valu-Village for $169. It's been sitting around neglected for quite some time but is all original with what I assume is the original 1970s era case. It has a bit of buckle rash on the back but should clean ...