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I reached out to the seller and confirmed this is their eBay listing, and photos in the listing:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/168338337340
It has a bolt-on neck.
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Hi Carlooch, reach out to me if you need help posting your photos. I have a sticky post about posting photos here: https://www.eldegas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1783

Sites such as imgur normally give you "IMG" tags of your photos so you can post them to forums like this one; or Google photos can ...

You should be able to send a private message to another member, such as the poster of this thread who was looking for a 4001 copy.

Best of luck with your sale!

El Degas was on the beginner to intermediate end of the guitar market overall and did not have a stellar reputation, but there are gems to be had!

Thank you for sharing yours.

I do not actually have much experience with the classical models - I have never bought one in all these years of enjoying these instruments. I would love to see your photos! I'm intrigued about the newsprint inside the guitar.

The adjustable bridge in my acoustic does at least have the plastic saddle in a metal housing that gives contact with the surrounding bridge material. Better than nothing, and actually a pretty interesting design.

I've always kind-of lamented the adjustable bridge saddles they sometimes used in this era. Probably looked good on paper to give the adjustment option, but I'll take a properly mounted saddle every time.

Regardless, they do work and I still have 1 acoustic with that system

The headstock logo style and F- prefix point to MIJ.

Looks like a previous owner replaced the original pickguard with two matched pickguards. It's an interesting look, but definitely not original.

Yup that is an early Japanese copy of a J-200.

One thing I'll mention is the adjustable plastic bridge saddle is kind of nice to have so you can adjust ...

I've found the info on F- models to be very sparse. I'm of the opinion that El Degas used the F- prefix before switching to model prefixes that made it a little easier to tell what they were copying (GB- for Gibson, MT- for Martin, etc). Because I think these are earlier models, it should also ...

Looks like B&J had a CA distribution warehouse at one time

https://imgur.com/ZWbDZNS

B&J (Buegeleisen & Jacobson) were based in NYC. They were music distributors, and El Degas was the white-label brand for the stringed instruments they had manufactured in Asia for them to distribute and sell through their distribution network. My understanding is they focused most on the east coast ...

lol of course Barry manages to slip in a detailed and thoughtful post while I'm monkeying around with my wording for 30 minutes.

I heard that the last batch of EG guitars constructed in Japan was at a large shop that burned to the ground. They lost an incredible amount of inventory, as many guitars were sitting, curing their finishes. Also, information and patterns were lost.


This goes with the claims (usually by ...

Super interesting info on the varitone! Thanks for that, and welcome.