Not a Framus

[beerdragon]

What do you think. an oldie but not goodie?
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[mgauction]

The only thing that is Framus is the neck, which was removed and placed on this, shall we say - "hybrid?" Look at the reverse bottom of the neck and you can see the heel which was pulled off an original Framus body. Yikes! Whose idea was that?

[obbm]

The body looks like a Hofner Verithin.

[andy67]

if ther is anyone interested, let me know, might be able to do a little recon or if someone wants to buy? i work in Glasgow..

andy

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='obbm' post='87171' date='Nov 12 2007, 08:30 AM']The body looks like a Hofner Verithin.[/quote]

A bit, but that's definitely not a Hofner body. I'm guessing that it's a Japanese generic hollow-body, maybe from the people who made the Antoria range.

[Bassassin]

That 6-bolt neckplate suggests Moridaira as a maker - you see that frequently on their house brand Morris & on some import brands, including early MIJ CMIs. However, it's anyone's guess what name was on the original headstock of this thing - in fact a lot of early Japcrap imports were unbranded - and this looks early to me.

Antorias were mainly sourced from the same factory as Ibanez, which was Fujigen Gakki during the 1970s.

Jon.