NGD: Framus Atlantic Television

[sirspens]

Guitar porn!

[Pacafeliz]

nice!

dunno why, but i love that headstock! (even though, technically, it's SO ugly!)

[Pacafeliz]

...impossible to find out when an Atlantik is a Television or something else...

[nanamour]

Stellar! I'm a big fan of the Television/Atlantic/Atlantic Television/Television Atlantic ( ) series...it's utter madness how many different combinations of appointments these came with throughout the production run, but I'm particularly fond of the more skeletal later examples like the one Pacafeliz posted; love the kitsch of that painted f-hole!

I have a Television (well, the neck and body of a Television) still laying in pieces awaiting neck finishing and a possible body refin, as well as, er...pickups, tailpiece, bridge, and every other piece of hardware. Other models of Framus hollowbodies come up now and again on eBay for relatively scant cash and I've thought about picking one up as a parts guitar but I feel a little pang of sadness whenever I think about parting out one otherwise perfectly good guitar to fix another.

I'm still hoping that someday I'll find a butchered/modified/pickupless Television so I wouldn't feel bad for putting Jazzmaster pickups in it.

^^^...which has led me to seriously consider going down a similar route to this. Mini humbuckers and Bigsby perhaps?

[sirspens]

...impossible to find out when an Atlantik is a Television or something else...

That's a great catalog page. That has to be late 1969. Mine is definitely a 5/111.

I like the pickguard on the Television one in that.

[sirspens]

I have a Television (well, the neck and body of a Television) still laying in pieces...

I saw your thread. I was wondering what happened with it.