I am pleased! I like the sound and playability is great. I also replaced the tremolo with a simple generic tailpiece.Ĭouldn’t resist putting a Framus decal on it:Īnd here’s how it sounds with the new neck. Got the angle right! The frets needed some filing, especially the sharp edges, as did the top nut (which was bone to my surprise!). It was a tedious job to shape the heel of the neck to fit in the Framus neck pocket, but I managed with a Japanese saw and a chisel. I figured if it wouldn’t work out, I could always put the original neck back on. Since the neck is bolt on, I decided to do a little experiment and I bought a mahogany Asian made neck off eBay for around $40 and replaced the Framus neck with it. I was always pretty impressed with the craftsmanship and quality of this guitar, but never really bonded with it, mainly because the multi laminate neck gave the guitar a bit of a stiff and lifeless feel. This is how I bought it more than 10 years ago: It came with the, for that period, usual Framus multi-laminate bolt-on neck, which always looked a bit strange to me because the head is not angled but straight à la Fender. The Framus pickups are very much like P90s and were designed by Bill Lawrence (who is actually called Willi Lorenz Stich and designed pickups for Framus). It’s mostly hollow, but for a block from bridge to tail. It’s a 1977, thinline model, roughly like an ES-330. I’ve had this old Framus Caravelle thinline guitar laying around for many years now, but I hardly ever played it.
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