Ben Jamin Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) My Dad's been looking to take up bass for a while now and yesterday he showed me this bass - he'd been given it by a local church he works for - it'd just been sitting in storage for years. It was covered in bits of white paint and general grime/dust and I didn't think much of it until I plugged it in and it sounded/played pretty good! Then I noticed it was a Framus (or claims to be) with 'made in West Germany' stamped on the neckplate. Got a bit excited and naturally offloaded all my Framus/Warwick historical knowledge in true geeky Basschat fashion, which didn't mean much to my Dad. Or anyone really. Anyway I gave it a good clean - the truss rod needs a little tweak and it could with some new strings, but everything works great - every fret is good and the intonation is all good. The pick-up sounds really nice. I just can't find any info on it - all the other shortscale Framus' I can find on the web seem to be semi-hollow and pretty different! Just wondered if anyone could shed some light as to what this bass is? Cheers! Ben Edited July 11, 2013 by Ben Jamin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 [url=http://www.framus-vintage.de/modules/modells/instruments.php?modellID=60&katID=4621&cl=EN]Framus Junior 4[/url]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Jamin Posted July 11, 2013 Author Share Posted July 11, 2013 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1373566801' post='2139165'] [url=http://www.framus-vintage.de/modules/modells/instruments.php?modellID=60&katID=4621&cl=EN]Framus Junior 4[/url]. [/quote] That was quick! Cheers! Didn't know they had a vintage archive, that's a neat idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Jamin Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Just in-case anyone's interested (can't find much info on these basses) I did a bit of recording this evening and the bass sounds something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOLMdM9lkeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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