Framus Hollow Body - ID

[Willeh]

Long time no post from me and thought of this place first for ID-ing a new guitar!

 

I have just got a hold of a Framus hollow body electric which has been roughly dated to 1969 (ish). Cant find a great deal online about this guitar, the nearest i can find is the Television model which looks very similar but has 3 pickups. I have attached some photos to see if anyone can roughly ID it for me!

 

Thanks!

[gardo]

I found this one on pintrest. It's listed as a 1964 Framus Golden Television

 

Here's the link you have to scroll about halfway down the page

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/383087512030213508/

[gardo]

Here's a 1963 Television I found on Classic Rock Guitars it was sold no price listed

http://www.classicrockguitars.nl/vintage-guitars-amps/sold.html

[bieke]

normally, there a year stamp on the label, but the label on the pics you posted clearly hasn't

also, no Müller signature on the label (he signed the "tested by" line)

could be that they were in a hurry and just put in a label and get on with it

also, your Television is more a 5/118-52 type and not a 5/116-52

it appears to have the same dotted neck as used for the Super-Strato series from 1967 onwards, so yeah, could be a late 60s guitar

normally, on the back of the headstock, there's a number stamp (very faint) and the two last digits are the year and a letter for the month (A = January, etc.)

 

anyway, Framus couldn't keep up with market demand back in the day and were slapping guitars together with whatever parts they had lying around, the switching and wiring harness is similar to that of the Sorento and other models