Cheers everyone,
so today was a day I've been looking for for a long time. I finally got my gramps 1962 Framus Hollywood with the Black Rose finish back from the luthier. She was completely unplayable cause the frets have been completely worn out. Now that she got a new set of frets she plays great again. I spent some time today cleaning her, restringing with a 10-52 set of Elixir Optiwebs (wanted to try those for a while so I used a set I bought some time ago but didn't know what guitar to put on) and so far I'm happy with the results.
If you can't be bothered to read through the wall of text regaring the story of the guitar, skip to the last paragraph where I ask for some help on the input jack :)
Story goes like this:
back in the days of communist Yugoslavia my grandpa was a carpenter. That was what he did officially for a living, but he was also a fisherman and a musician. He used to play terraces with his band, doing top 40 stuff that people could dance to and as the tourist season during summer in Croatia always meant a lot of money he actually built a house with the cash he earned over those years. The very same house I spent my youth in during summers when school was out in Austria, enjoying the beach and the sun. Miss those days now that I have to work and study for university.
Anyway, my grandpa was always a very practical dude. Back in the day with the communist system things didn't need to be pretty, value wasn't as important as practicability. He had a Vox Solid State Foundation Bass amp that he'd use to plug his guitar as well as his 4 stringer into, a Höfner Violin Bass (the model McCartney played) as well as the aformentioned Framus Hollywood.
Now one day he decided he liked the way the strap feels attached to the headstock of the acoustic guitar way better than the way it felt being attached to the strapbuttons of the Framus, so he drilled a hole into the headstock in order to feed the lace through it. He didn't have a hard case for the Höfner Violin Bass (which is a shortscale) so he took the Framus case, sawed away some of the plastic and the horn on the headstock so the damn thing would fit inside. The day his original Jensen speaker in the Vox Cab died he used the old grill that he then put on a new cab he built with a noname speaker and the old Vox cabinet has been used to store potatoes in the basement in it ever since.
Nowadays we would cringe at such things but as said back in the days no one gave a damn about instruments and amps as long as they'd be practical. Even if it meant "modifying" them in a very brutal way.
So ever since he's gotten old and strokes and cancer rendered him unable to play any instruments he gave that very same guitar, bass and amp to me. Even though the value is destroyed forever I see those instruments as part of his legacy and I wanna play them, therefor I'm veeeery excited to have the guitar back now. The bass is going to the luthiers next, the neck has deattached from the body after the glue has given up over the course of all those years.
Years ago my father brought that Framus to a hack up "luthier" to restore her. However what that idiot did was to remove the original tuners and replace them with some Gotoh knock offs (drilling new holes in the headstock), losing one of the original tuners, he blocked off the trem with wood and drilled holes in the bridge to make a string tree that would push down the strings before they hit the bridge and he painted the back of the neck black where it was worn down to the bare wood from years of playing (original back of the neck was painted in a red burst like the body). He basically ruined the instrument even more. If you ever have a vintage instrument, be sure to bring it to someone with a good reputation, someone who actually knows what he's doing.
Fast forward to today, I totally took her apart, removed all the "mods" the idiot did to it and gave her as said a proper setup. The only thing I'm unable to do on instruments is refrets and fret dresses, that's why I brought her to the luthier. I ordered some new Framus Hollywood tuners (which unfortunately are plastic instead of abalone like the old ones) and the whammy bar is in function again.
Last paragraph and my current problem:
I had a look at the electronics, the workmanship is great as you'll see in the pictures and everything works fine so I won't mess with it. I had the thought of ordering a regular input jack but I doubt the plug would fit in the grounded metal case surrounding the electronics plus the body is really thin, so I'd rather solder myself a custom cable. Problem is the guitar has a weird 3 pin input jack and whilst I do have an adapter cable it's straight and sticking out so high the whammy bar hits it, I'm unable to move it up and down.
Now is there a 3 pin type input jack I can order somewhere? What is it called and where can I find it? Is there an angled version of it? I'd really love to use the whammy and I'd rather not try to convert the already poor and abused thing to a regular jack input type...
Pics are attached, hope you can help me out, cheers!
