TWELFTH FRET LIMITED EDITIONS

[mikehelms]

...and how's that working for you???

Don't promise that you'll finish drywalling the garage this weekend like I did, when I bought my O-01R parlor earlier this week.  It sucks.   

-- Mike

[Tycho]

Larravette, were you in yesterday?  I was there at about 5:30 and couldn't see them.  (I wasn't looking all that hard though; I was there to try out some dreads.)

[Larravette]

   Yea Tycho,  I was in somewhere around 5:00 and asked to see them.  They are upstairs in Dave's photo studio room.  Not a bad place to play them as it's nice and quiet in there.  I guess they figure they will be sold without having to display them? Don't want to get shop wear?

[Tycho]

Makes sense.

[cutaway]

     I'm with you Larravette.  I made the trip down yesterday to see those Madagascar guitars.  Yes, I'm now in officially in love .  I just liked everything about them.  On the one hand they seemed very familiar,  because I'm so used to seeing the L body but on the other hand they seemed quite different, like Larrivee has taken it up a major notch or two with these guitars.  The woods are just gorgeous,  no two ways about it.  The tops look way better in person than in the photos and the Madagascar is the best yet.  Playability is wonderful but the sound just seems to have something extra.  I need,  yes I need one of these guitars .

[woodcrazy]

    Spent about an hour playing one of the non cutaway L-09 Madagaskars and I'm convinced.  There is nothing I could find on the guitar that I didn't fall completely in love with and the sound is just how I like it,  nice and crisp with good punch in the low end and tons of sparkle.  I love those tuners,  the clear pickguard,  the tops are just beautiful and the Madagaskar rosewood is one of the nicest looking woods I've seen on a guitar.  Time to  upgrade.

[Larravette]

    I think I've got a way of getting the funds for one of these.  Will know in a couple of days and if so,  I'll try and post some pics.

[Sabatini]

Yeah, I thought I might have a way to finance one, too, but I called Robert Redford, and, while I think my wife is extremely hot, he wasn't interested in my proposal.    So, no guitar for me, but I guess I could post pictures of the wife.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107211/


(Dear, I don't think you frequent this forum, but just in case:   )

[prof_stack]

    Spent about an hour playing one of the non cutaway L-09 Madagaskars and I'm convinced.  There is nothing I could find on the guitar that I didn't fall completely in love with and the sound is just how I like it,  nice and crisp with good punch in the low end and tons of sparkle.  I love those tuners,  the clear pickguard,  the tops are just beautiful and the Madagaskar rosewood is one of the nicest looking woods I've seen on a guitar.  Time to  upgrade.

Woodcrazy, can you compare the MR to other fine guitars you have played?

[woodcrazy]

Hi Prof

    When I played the Madagascar guitar against a regular L-09,  the Madagascar seemed to have more zing in the overtones and even though it was very crisp sounding,  it was just somehow noticeably smoother sounding.  It is hard putting it into words,  but the Limiteds had lots of zing but were not too edgy or harsh.  Very very lively sounding to my ear.  The nicest new L-09s I've played for sure.

[jeremy3220]

I've read that Madagascar Rosewood is the closest thing to Brazilian Rosewood in sound. I haven't played a Mad Rose guitar myself though..

[Rescon]

Wow!! If I had this choice a few months ago, I may have had a tougher decision to make. I've commissioned a MadRose/Adi from Trevor @ Kronbauer Guitars. Had a very hard time finding MadRose but finally found a set I just love. NOW, the wait...........
I don't even have a time frame yet.
Nickoli

[Dale_I]

I've read that Madagascar Rosewood is the closest thing to Brazilian Rosewood in sound. I haven't played a Mad Rose guitar myself though..

Excerpt from this article:   http://www.pjguitar.com/options6.htm

"A more recent arrival among Brazilian rosewood alternatives on the guitar backs/sides market is Madagascar rosewood. This wood, like Indian rosewood, is currently in plentiful supply of very high quality. It's appearance and physical characteristics are uncannily similar to Brazilian: the density range is almost exactly the same, it's typical color is like the Brazilian rosewood of the brick-red color way. Its typical figuring is a dead ringer for Brazilian, sometimes including even the "webbing" often associated with Brazilian, but it is less prone to the kind of tree-twist figure which often creates instability. There are far fewer worm- and bugholes. The trees tend to be somewhat small, which means that sets for larger guitars typically have three- or four-piece backs (which presents no construction problem with today's adhesive technology), but two-piece backs continue to be available for classicals. In every respect, Madagascar rosewood is the most attractive and acoustically ideal replacement for Brazilian to be found anywhere."

[Claude]

I've never played a Brazilian rosewood Larrivee L,  but I'll tell you,  the Madagascar L I played on Saturday definitely had more sizzle in the high end.  A real nice snap to it,  but enough oomph in the low end that it all really worked.  Larrivee has definitely stepped it up a level for these guitars.

[FNG]

Well....which one of you chicken livers is going to buy one?   

[Tycho]

Well....which one of you chicken livers is going to buy one?   

Chicken?

Did someone say chicken?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RdbZRST2Byw

[prof_stack]

Well....which one of you chicken livers is going to buy one?   

Yeah, with the US$ almost level with the Loonie I'm afraid to ask this week's price.   

[FNG]

Chicken?

Did someone say chicken?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RdbZRST2Byw

I'm doing my old personal rendition of the chicken dance right now.   

[Big Martin]

So the Canadian dollar is sometimes referred to as "the loonie"?  never heard that one before.

and WOW!  Laravette, Claude, cutaway, and woodcrazy!  You guys MUST LIVE AT THE 12TH FRET!  Looks like just about every post of you guys is about guitars at the 12th fret, with many of the same tidbits of Larrivee history and Larrivee models from the shop there.

Must be nice to live near so many nice Larrivees!  Or do you guys just stay in Dave's shop all the time?  You guys aren't Dave's children with a financial interest in the shop?  maybe he could adopt you?

      

[Tycho]

So the Canadian dollar is sometimes referred to as "the loonie"?  never heard that one before.

Yup.  When the dollar coin was introduced about a decade ago, it had an engraving of a loon on one side.  It instantly became known as the loonie, and the name stuck.

Then, when the two-dollar coin was introduced a few years later, it immediately became the "toonie".

There's just something about the Twelfth Fret.  Toronto is blessed with a few great guitar stores, and being the gear slut that I am, I've spent lots of time and money in all of them.  But I love going to the Twelfth Fret.  It becomes sort of an obsession in its own right, kind of like a spin-off of GAS.  I don't live as close to the store as I think Larravette does, but I've devised a special way to get there (which I call "the wormhole") that avoids all the traffic on Danforth Ave. I'll make that trip every other Saturday afternoon, just for the sheer fun of it.