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Originally Posted by Clive Hugh
A guy asked me if I could fix a Framus 12 string that his girl friend had tried to fit over his head but it was too far gone to fix. The neck construction was interesting, it was laminate, in that it was made from strips about 4 -5 mm thick edge up (under the fret board) and alternating dark and light wood. Never seen that before, the neck was fine as it was used as the handle in the "fitting"
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One assumes that this was soon an ex-girlfriend... A Framus Les-Paul-a-like that I had in the early 70s also turned out to have a multi-ply laminated neck. Wonderfully playable guitar, nice tone, low action, ticked all the boxes, but its life came to an abrupt and premature end when it got knocked off its stand during a break at a gig and the headstock was fractured, revealing the laminated construction - about 42 thin strips of wood glued together. A repair would have been tricky and costly so I sadly traded the remains in for silly low money towards another guitar.