I jsut bought a Larrivee d03 with the Maple binding ,but the pickguard is clear,
can anyone tell me the yr they started with the regular  pickguards ?
thanks in advance ( I get the guitar in about a week)
Dave

When you get your s/n, you can send it to Larrivée and they will tell you a general idea of when it was built.  I had a friend that bought an L-03 in roughly 2002 or 2003 and it had the maple binding, while mine has black fake something or other binding.

My old 2001 L-03 had plastic binding.  For a guy like me who bumps into things, I actually like the plastic binding better.  I've had my L-03 SO for about a month and I already had to touch up two dings in the rosewood binding.