Jaydee Bass Mafia

MY 1987 CHERRY-RED JAYDEE MARK KING SERIES 2 I purchased this bass from the U.K. off of eBay 20 years ago. It had a major issue on the fingerboard as there was a high spot at the fourth fret making everything below those frets unplayable. I had a trusted guitar luthier friend of mine pull out all the frets, re-plane the fretboard level again, and then re-fret the bass. Problem solved. I also purchased new parts from John Diggins including all-new gold hardware and a pair of his hand-made humbucker pickups. After all that, the bass was almost excellent. The biggest problem is that since it has the tradition control-cavity sized circuit board, you have to remove the entire circuit board to access the pots just to clean them. (If I were Jaydee, I would have redesigned this particular circuit board so that it incorporated drilled access holes through the circuit board that lined up over the back of the pots to get a long spray nozzle tube so that you can spray contact cleaner without having to remove the entire board..........just a thought.)

MY 2023 CHERRY-RED JAYDEE SERIES ONE CLASSIC SUPERNATURAL This is my latest Jaydee, it's the 2023 Series 1 Classic in cherry red that I purchased from Bass Direct about two months ago. This makes the fourth Jaydee that I own. I'm glad that I didn't have to wait for it to be built and was readily available. (Thanks, Marcus Bell!) I just changed the strings and tweaked the setup to my liking. Unlike most Jaydees, the Classic comes with the traditional credit card-sized preamp circuit which was also in Mark King's SA003. I like this preamp design better as it allows access to the pots so that you can clean them with contact cleaner without removing the entire electronic assembly that is found in typical active Jaydees.