Robert Burrows

okay, the best peice advice I can give you on this is to do it one step at a time. I had the same problem with my guitar, a local guitar builder Feline Guitars with no way to afford 'my dream guitar' in a delapadated peice of shakey/rickety guitar from the 60's... the catalyst for this project was when I spent £300 (GBP) to get it fixed this year!, and I baught it in March 2000 when I was 13 out of some money gained at high school for £45 (haggled down from £60) in a south London pawn shop. I knew what I wanted from the moment I saw it, hence I managed to to somehow persued the salesman to lower the price. I did'nt even know how I was going to do do itlol, I just knew I wanted it to have Slash's pickup's from his 59' Gibson Les Paul Goldtop that he used on tour with Guns N' Roses. Now... Dec 2007, I beat the new year, so I can safely say, it's a 1960's guitar, rebuilt in 2007. I've cut it fine though, it's been booked in to the guitar shop, and me at the age of 21, is hopeing and praying that I can afford to take it home in 2007! LOL 4 real though , I've put £60 down as a deposit to soften the blow, but still hopeing and praying

It's been booked in yesterday to have a new scratch plate fitted... along with the new pickups (2 x Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro Humbucker's). - I'm talking about my once delapadated 1960's single cutaway Framus Hollywood, that I had fixed in feburary. - lets see... so far i've had: the neck re-fretted the action adjusted the binding redone gotoh tunermatic machineheads fitted jim dunlop strap lock system fitted and now it's finally been booked in... for the last time! I'm turning this guitar into Slash's Guitar, well, in a sense, because he choose the exact same pickups and installed them into a 59' Gibson Les Paul, that I thought, what would he have done, had he of had a Framus? hence this project Slash's Framus. will post pictures ONCE COMPLETE!

I have'nt of yet figured out how to post a picture successfully... all the attempts I make don't seem to load... maybe i'll donate or something... but anyway, my profile picture, that's the guitar... well, that's the guitar... in the condition I aquired it in 2000. since then, (Feb 2007) I had it looked at by feline guitars. www.felineguitars.com they made it playable again lol, did all the work on the neck mentioned above, installed some really neat gotoh machine heads! fret's redone, I think I heard talk about giving it a "2007 contempary les paul fret outline", which was cool with me, so I had that. About what my guitar is. (I aquired this infomation from framus.com due to laziness) Hollywood - the Franconian solid body Framus started solid body guitar manufacturing in 1958. The Hollywood model, with which the history of the Frankish solid body guitar began, was actually still a hollow body construction and consisted of the sides frame with the top and back glued on. But out of this quickly developed a simple, massive construction... but, most of the guitars pictured like mine on that website link, the single cut away Hollywood's that is, have 1 pu, mine has 3! Framus Vintage Page true, the Hollywood double cut away has 3, but 3 of the origingal pu's, mine has, 3, but 2 original, and a chromate plated mystery humucker for the neck.

Framus Hollywood Single Cut a way - 1960's Aquired it in 2000. 2007. Phase 1 'Complete' Refurbished neck, binding, frets, gotoh machineheads, jim dunlop straplock system the guitar plays, but the scratch plate is old (& made out of wood!) and the pickups are on the way out November 2007. 'Pickups aquired and quaoted on project a fair price' I Baught a set of Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro Humbucker pickups, (Bridge & Neck) I've been quoted for a custom scratch plate made plus the fitting of the pickups and I hope to get it completed by 2008, so fingers crossed. The current colour is natural wood, dark brown, and the wooden screatch plate is of a lighter more yellowy/brown colour, so I'm eagert for the screatch plate to replucate that as much as possible, the pickups are both black, I want the pickup surrounders I either want to be some kinda vintage age cream colour that i've seen online somewhere, or white. Robert.