Fretboard and fretsticks were sanded, the frets polished, the fretboard oiled. We supplemented them with six old new-old-stock tuners from our inventory. We installed new Framus tuners from the vintage series, they correspond exactly to the originals. We filled the much too large holes for the cheap tuners with wooden dowels, repainted the headstock and then drilled matching holes again for the appropriate tuners. We closed and retouched the old drill holes for the pickup and the hole for the jack socket. The guitar was completely cleaned, the body was blown out and all lacquer surfaces were extensively retouched and polished. When we got it, it was inappropriately and ugly "optimised": The tuners were cheap Schaller copies from the Far East, a no-name pickup made of black plastic was mounted in the sound hole and the jack socket was in the lower bout. For reasons of space, it was given away at the beginning of 2021. The guitar was part of a collection of Framus acoustic guitars assembled between 20. Four-ply celluloid pickguard with Framus engraving open tuners. Fingerboard and tailpiece made of beautiful East Indian rosewood, the neck with truss rod, the fingerboard with pearloid dot inlays. Neck made of the indestructible, thousandfold proven and very elaborately produced multiply beech wood with black lacquered headstock. Maple sides and back, the back is arched. Massive spruce top, bookmatched construction. Our guitar is stamped 71E, so it dates from May 1971. Nevertheless, they are still a bargain on the vintage market.
But countless have already disappeared or are circulating in pitiful condition on eBay, good models are slowly becoming rare. 6- and 12-string models sold by the thousands, mostly in the "brown shaded" finish offered here. The Framus Texan was THE German acoustic flat top guitar in the sixties and into the early seventies and a real design icon.
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