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Thread #109058   Message #2275358
Posted By: BuddyBrown
28-Feb-08 - 09:40 PM
Thread Name: Anyone Heard of a Jadee acoustic guitar?
Subject: Anyone heard of a Jadee acoustic guitar?
Can't find anything on this old guitar of mine. I was hoping someone out there could help.

It's made in Japan, probably in the late 60's or early 70's. It's made to be a copy of a Gibson square-shouldered, cherry sunburst Hummingbird. I can tell that the wood is all solid, but I don't know what kind. It has the MOP double parallelogram fret markers and headstock crown, as well as "Jadee" written in script in MOP. The headstock top is the traditional Gibson style mustache or open book. The bridge has this weird metal piece with screws on either side that the the saddle drops into, making it somewhat adjustable. The paper label on the inside says "Guitarra made en Japan" (Half-Spanish? Huh?) gives a serial # and says it's a "Jadee". The action has always been low, I've only adjusted the neck once, it's an easy player, and the tone is balanced mellow.

I got it used back in '75 as a gift, it was my first full-sized guitar. In 1981 I bought a Sigma Anniversary model new, so the Jadee became my back-up and camp-out instrument. Recently I've been playing more again and using more alt-tunings, so I decided to have the bridge re-glued (a stint in Nashville tuning, while fun, was not a good idea) and the first four frets and tuners replaced. All this work on my old faithful made me wonder about it. When web searches took me nowhere... well this was the only place to find Sigma info, so why not give it a try?

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated!

BB