~1972 El Degas EB-3 Walnut
Offered for sale;
Used circa mid-70’s El Degas EB-3 style bass guitar.
This bass is in good condition, neck and frets are fine, we had the neck pickup rewound by Kent Armstrong.
Cosmetically there are nicks and marks about the body. Patina a plenty.
Welcome to the glorious "copy era" of Japanese “lawsuit” instruments!
El Degas or El Dégas was a Japanese label for acoustics and electric guitars built to resemble Gibson guitars, and other major guitar companies' designs and distributed by Buegeleisen & Jacobson of New York, New York.
This is an interesting piece of Japanese instrument manufacturing history, a workhorse of a different color!
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