... and it was quite a surprise for me too:

(http://users.adelphia.net/~nkwak/content/IMG_0155.jpg)

The box sat in the living room under my dubious eye (somebody pinch me) from the time it arrived yesterday morning (a day late I'm told) but  had to wait and piece together what had happened. Most importantly, I had to show it to my wife expecting her wrath, but insteads she shook her head and laughed hystericallly because obviously her husband waaaay too much time on the Internet. I'm used to it. So without further ado, after supper my sidekick and I finally got down to brass tax and opened it up:
(http://users.adelphia.net/~nkwak/content/IMG_0156.jpg)

I'm loving the guitar and have been walking on eggshells around it (when I'm not slapping the strings) but more than anything I'm humbled by the selfless gesture that it took for 20+ people banding together. Words cannot describe how appreciative I am of their gesture and now I've got a lot to live up to!

Part of that was the request to post pics (done, but I'l take more later) and a rough clip (which is OK for a first attempt but there will be more):
People Get Ready (acoustic) (http://users.adelphia.net/~nkwak/content/People_Get_Ready-acoustic.mp3)

Sorry no doughnuts this morning; I'm on a health kick with the arrival of spring (no pun intended) so the best I can do is cook up some French toast! 

Congrats Neil, Finally...We'll have to get together one evening although at this time all I have are a couple of Martins......000-15s, 000-28EC..... Robb  BTW I have been transfered back to PGH hopefully perm.

Hello Robb,

Neat to see a picture of an OM-03 while it's being played. Does anyone else has pictures of themselves playing their Larrys? It's a good way of getting an idea of the different sizes of the models.

Looks to me like your "Side Kick" is in need of a nice Larrivee Parlor.... teach him well!!!

Quote from: Robb on April 27, 2006, 09:48:39 AM
Congrats Neil, Finally...We'll have to get together one evening although at this time all I have are a couple of Martins......000-15s, 000-28EC..... Robb  BTW I have been transfered back to PGH hopefully perm.

Hey Robb! Long time! Glad to hear you're back in town on a semi-perm basis. Do you still have that L-09FM?

No Neil, No Larrivees at the moment just martins....Robb

Neil,

Congratulations!!  "Finally" is right.  Looks great and the clip sound wonderful!  That's a forever keeper.

 Congrats Neil.  As a former OM-03R owner I know how much fun they can be ad how rich the tone is on one of those.  Enjoy!

You deserve it my friend!!!

Sounds great.

-josh

Congratulations Neil,
Those 03R's are great guitars, I have a L-03R that just sounds awesome.  It's amazing that you can make such an impression on people through the Internet.  You must be just shocked, I know I would be.

Don't lose that picture man.  When your boy is 20 years old and gone out of the house like mine you will cherish it to no end!

Steve   :GRN>

Great clip, Neil.  Thanks.  Sounds great, man.  Have fun.

Congratulation on a fine guitar.

Am I missing something here, was there a secret fund being raised for this guitar. I know kwakatak has been waiting a long time to get a Larrivee. If so, the generosity of the people on this forum truely amazes me. I guess that's what "Family" is about and I'm happy to be part of it, just wish I could have helped.

Congrats Neil!Awesome guitar!Enjoy her!
(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/krispy-kreme-tray.jpg)

Quote from: bhika on April 28, 2006, 08:52:37 AM
Congratulation on a fine guitar.

Am I missing something here, was there a secret fund being raised for this guitar. I know kwakatak has been waiting a long time to get a Larrivee. If so, the generosity of the people on this forum truely amazes me. I guess that's what "Family" is about and I'm happy to be part of it, just wish I could have helped.

Yes. It started in the Harmony-Central Acoustic Forum. We included the Acoustic Magazine Player Forum when it looked like we wouldn't make our $ goal at HC. The next step would have been to come here for contributions if we failed to reach the $ goal with HC and APM. It only took 8 days to collect all of the $. In the end we had 19 people contribute between HC and APM. Sorry we didn't get to you guys here.