Solidbody

With their first attempts at making electric basses, Framus had difficulties stepping away from the acoustic resonating body just like it did already with the electric guitars: The Hollywood Bass from the late fifties was still based on a semi solid construction. It had a Star Bass byname like some later models: Hollywood Star Bass, Strato® Star Bass, Strato® de Luxe Star Bass or even Framus Golden de Luxe Star Bass - which didn’t sound too bad. And in view of the famous musicians who used the instruments, these names weren’t just hollow words - German basses had already a good reputation among professional musicians in the sixties.

The later most remarkable bass models were the BL-12 and the Nashville Standard and Standard Deluxe, which were confronted with the more affordable beginner models from the Junior series. Also in the late sixties and early seventies high quality copies of American models were built like the SG-Bass S-375 or the Jazz-Bass S-380.