Jaydee basses are produced in Birmingham, England. They are prominently well-known via Mark King of Level 42. John Diggins (J.D.) went with his own pickup design which allowed his pickups to be anchored from the rear of the bass to give the pickups a cleaner look from the front. The pickup covers are hand-made using different woods that are glued and clamped together as one long piece, then he cuts them into several shorter ‘soapbar’ size pieces, routes out the inside to accommodate his hand-wound mini ‘P-bass’ style….
….design, rounds off the square edges, and installs a fabricated backing plate. Here are photos from a pickup removed from my 1987 Series 2 Mark King bass.
There wasn’t that many luthier bass instrument makers back then who were building their own pickups in-house at that time. I believe it was an interesting concept for the time. And I don’t understand what you meant by ‘waxxed on’.
It looks like the pickup pole pieces were covered in some kind of black Wax or epoxy. Many companies do this to keep dust out of the electronics but really they just want to keep the secret sauce from being to easy to copy,
Maybe the picture was not as clear from my point of view. It doesn’t look like a conductive paints and they are pretty much a common application on your everyday day import instruments as well nowadays.
the reason I mentioned the “seal” part was I saw an interview with Rob Turner of and that was mentioned, there are proprietary stuff they don’t want avg people to muck around,
That’s why it’s Waxed On