D**n you J. Larrivee

[unclrob]

OK that got your attention and may get me kicked off but...I played an OM09 today and well :mad:Larrivee.It was a Brazilian rosewood and D**N you.I have played hundreds of brazilian rosewood guitars by many makers and have never been impressed nor did I ever have the desire to own one,H*LL I've never been a fan of rosewood of any kind and well...now I own an LS10 that I adore.BUT S**T,F**K D**N.....the OM09 was just so balanced and full sounding that now I WANT ONE {donations wanted}.OK the setup was so so and the strings were to light for me BUT I have never played a sweeter rosewood.Not bassy or metalicy just wonderious full tone every note was fat in all freq. an amazing guitar.I played it up against a H+D,Collings and Santa Cruz OM's also in brazillian and this Larrivee smoked them all and the customers and employee's agreed.I played in double drop "D",full "D" tuning and my favorite tuning "DADDAD".Bloody amazing.I now know that not only am I a fanboy and proud of it.I can say this because I have tried the rest and the Larrivee's are the best.So once again D**N you Larrivee I have a mortgage and a boy to put thru college so anyone with money save me.......OK I got it 35 people send a hundred each or 70 send fifty each or a hundred people send thirty-five each.You get my drift....

OH ya to Jean and the gang  thankyou  , ,

[Dotneck]

Good for you...hope you two are happy for a long time.

BTW...make the boy pay for his own college...

[unclrob]

We'd be very happy if I had the money to buy it.Between my wife and I we're stashing a hundred a month in his savings,of which he has more then my wife and I have in savings.

[L-fan]

Lovely and hilarious description of your encounter with the OM09 Braz!  Cracked me up!     

[ffinke]

Come on gang! There has to be some retired CEOs out there with more money than God who can finally trickle down some of it on Unclrob. He deserves that Braz. And you won't even have to pull up your zipper after you 'trickle down'!

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[flagstaffcharlie]

Scenario:

So you steal the money and buy the guitar. But the feds are hot on your trail and you have to leave the country. Of course, you can't take the guitar because Brazilian RW is a CITES listed wood. So you leave the guitar with your boy who discovers that selling the guitar will help pay for college...

Us regular guys can't win. 

Have more donuts.

[willguitar]

unclrob,

Quite a tale.

What does S**T,F**K D**N mean? SHUT FOLK DOWN? If so, that is just wrong...  ;-)

Cheers,

Will

PS, where can I buy that guitar? :-)

[unclrob]

ffinke 

Flag the boy and wife get everything anyway.But ,hey 

L-Fan thankyou I thought real hard on the drive home what and how I wanted to say it.It really s*cks I rollin into the slow season and need to hold onto every dollar.If the store wasn't so tight on cash I'd trade one of my electrics for it and throw in some cash.They have a large stock of Larrivee's but everyone wants there over priced couch guitars so Larrivee sale's are slow.Right now they have more Larrivee's in stock then I stocked when they ran the joint.

[flagstaffcharlie]

We'd be very happy if I had the money to buy it.Between my wife and I we're stashing a hundred a month in his savings,of which he has more then my wife and I have in savings.

Actually, humor aside, I have a lot of admiration for this. You're clearly parents who value education.

Someday your kid will graduate, get a career, and realize what you did for him. And maybe (with a few subtle hints) he'll show up at your door some birthday with a sweet guitar.  

[unclrob]

Lets see he just turned 11,so buy the time he gets out of school I'll be one year older then that great Beatle tune "When I'm sixty-four".Thanks though at best maybe he'll throw me a bone now and then.Wait we're leaving him the house so maybe he'll let the wife and me keep our room>

[willfo]

 I was raised on Larrivee's. An owner of a guitar store where i live in N.Idaho actually brought an L-05 that had a repaired crack in the back from the factory for me when i was 11( late 80's) and took an old takemine in on trade for it. I loved mahogany guitars from then on. I ended up trading that guitar for an amp i badly needed about five years ago- still wake up in the middle of the night regretting that one! About three years ago now i bought a D-03re and was kicking myself for awhile not getting the L body style and mahogany . In a year or so of gigging 4 nights a week though that guitar has opened up beautifully and while I still mourn the loss of my best freind for over 20yrs  the guitar i have now provides pretty great consolation. One day i will be getting another L-05 , but it may have to wait until my insatiable hunger for an sd-50 is sated, until then i'll just have to let all the compliments i get about the guitar i own now hold me over (especially the ones i get from D-28 players)!

[leftync]

If it makes you feel any better, some of us out here prefer Larrivee's dreads to the L.  My first Larrivee was a D-03R, then I bought an L-03RE for comfort. I thought I'd trade the D, but never could. In fact, even though I liked the neck on the L better, I rarely picked it up when the D was around. Eventually I sold the L, and traded the D-03R for an older Larrivee dread with a neck I liked more. With the money I had left over, I bought a Larrivee parlor, which I seldom play and might sell. All I play is the Larrivee dread, a 90s D-50 (made then with sitka and rosewood). I'm sure the SD-50 and L-05 are great guitars and I hope you get either or both if you really want it. But you may never play anything that sounds better than that D-03RE.

[247hoopsfan]

I agree with you Unclrob.  I feel the same way about all 3 of my Larrivees. I play all 3 of them every day.  The OM5MT I picked up recently calls my name every night.  And my JCL has the sweetest deep rosewood voice, while the D10 is a cannon.  One of my hardest decisions is to decide to play my JCL or my D10 in worship band.  So sometimes I take them both and use the JCL when there is a quieter fingerstyle song.  I am privileged to have 3 great guitars.

[unclrob]

Right now I'm down to 3 Larrivee's an OM03PA,an LS10 and an LS09FM.Don't get me wrong the kids all get played daily but right now I'm taking a break from playing electric stuff as the band is desolving into ego land.I played it today again this time I brought my slide,I'm looking for something to play slide on and this OM is about perfect for it.Though a good client showed up with his first ever Larrivee an OM60,I understand now why it gets so many rave's great guitar.

[Peter Cree]

I've never been a big fan of Braz.   I prefer EIR in most configurations.    However, I got a P-09 Braz in a trade with Ted and WOW...........

Yup every note is rounder with a wonderful presence.   Yes the set up and few details weren't up to snuff.........hate that.........but

Its a killer guitar.   Braz is wonderful in a small body.    Complex overtones.  Deeper bass for a parlor.   Full articulation in 24" scale.   

My opinion of Larri rosewood is you have to give it time to dry out a bit.   You can't really tell what you've got for 1 or 2 years.   But this Braz......I'm lucky to have it and its going to stay.

[Walkerman]

Thought you all might enjoy this...Matt with the Braz parlour he's making for his son....

[Queequeg]

Thought you all might enjoy this...Matt with the Braz parlour he's making for his son....

OMG! 

[Zohn]

This must be me favourite guitar review of all time! - Rob you're ok Bud!!!