"JOODEE See Daion. Instruments previously produced in Japan from the late 1970s through the 1980s.
Joodee instruments were produced by luthier Shiro Tsuji and the T & Joodee Guitar company. Due to the demand in Japan for the Gem B series and others, very few instruments were exported to the U.S. market." https://store.bluebookinc.com/download/Category.aspx?product=EGUITAR&id=505
I had one of these and they were dire ! In East London back in the late 70's there was a Tokai dealer who managed to get hold of a few of these and they were all poorly built.
I often try to remind people that admission of owning a Japanese Guitar in the 70s was not a thing to do. They were often thought of in a worse light then a Chinese Strat Copy of Today.
Then there is this crap :
Joo Dee guitars are equivilant in both build quality and tone to other late 70's/early 80's 'lawsuit' Les Pauls such as Tokai Love Rocks, Burny's and Aria's. Only they are much rarer and probably more collectable. The true lawsuit models were so named because they copied the 'open book' Gibson designed headstock.Joo Dee also didnt help matters by putting ' LES PAUL' on the headstock!!! It is now generally recognised that the early 80's was the 'golden age' of Japanese guitar making and this guitar is as good as almost any Gibson Ive ever played or owned.
FFS only Ibanez ever come under fire from Norlin !. This Lawsuit crap people spout is all bollox.
On June 28, 1977, Norlin, the parent company of Gibson, filed a lawsuit against Elger (Ibanez) in Philadelphia Federal District Court . The case was "Gibson Vs. Elger Co." with Gibson claiming trademark infringement based on the duplicate "open book" or "moustache" headstock design of the Ibanez copies. Allegedly Gibson had threatened to sue Elger/Ibanez for a long time regarding the use of the headstock which Norlin claimed as a Gibson trademark. Ironically, by the fall of 1976 Ibanez had redesigned their headstocks to look much like those found Guild guitars. The new headstock design even appeared in the 1976 catalog! So, conspiracy theorists, by the time the lawsuit was actually filed, the headstocks had already been changed. While "lawsuit" head generally means a Gibson copy headstock, the Ibanez headstock at the time of the lawsuit was actually a copy of a Guild headstock. It is an urban legend that the Gibson/Norlin lawsuit was filed against a number of Japanese companies. It is also commonly held it was over the exact copying of American designs. Neither of these urban legends are true.
?249 for this?????? I bought my yamaha SG2000 for this sort of money and that's a top guitar, have you seen the "unattention" to details on the joo dee?
?249 for this?????? I bought my yamaha SG2000 for this sort of money and that's a top guitar, have you seen the "unattention" to details on the joo dee?
