Repairs included: a fret level/dress, bridge glue-down (these were only bolted-on at the factory!), replacement pickguard (cut to the same shape as a missing original), extra compensation and replacement adjuster screws at the adjustable saddle, cleaning, and a glorified setup. The body shape is interesting in that it looks like a dreadnought but handles more like a 000 - it has a shallow, 4" body depth. The factory made construction choices which mean that the "as-original" setups on these left a bit to be desired, but all the parts are there to make them great players when they're dialed-in. Once you get the bolt-on necks solid in their joints, too, these things are stable-stable. It's perfect in that capacity and it also, ya know, plays crazy-fast, too. Big open chords strummed like you've only been playing 9 months and are still on a crazy sugar rush of guitar-intrigue? Yeah, yeah, yeah! Pound it! Melodic passages? Hrm, maybe, but pretty boring. thin?) tone that suits rock-style strumming perfectly.
Tom Petty? Traveling Wilburys? It has an all-mids-and-highs, clean, jangly, thinnish (but not really. When you strum on it hard and with a thinner, floppier pick, it sounds like a ton of old '60s records with 12-strings on them.
I've seen Framus multi-ply necks (like the type on this one) that have been run-over by cars and they're still as straight and functional as they were before thousands of pounds crushed them. They're one of those brands that - despite how beat the instrument looks - you know it will shape-up and become a player with relative ease. They've been absent from them for a long time as all instruments that used to sell locally seem to have moved into the online sphere. I used to find them all the time at flea markets 10-15 years ago. I've worked on a lot of old Framus guitars.
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