Production Dates for Larrivee Guitars

[Chief48]

This is my first post to this forum and I hope the question is not too dumb.  I have a Larrivee OMO3R  and I would like to determine the production year.  I know with my Martins I can just go to their web site and determine the production year by the serial number.  I could not find that information on the Larrivee web site.  Am I not looking in the right place?  Thanks for any help.

[Frets]

you have to phone in and ask....i believe brian provides that kind of info.

[ronmac]

Hi Chief48,

Welcome to the Forum!

Unfortunately, the serial numbers for Larrivee guitars have been anything but "serial". The best way to get a date is to contact Larrivee Customer Service directly.

http://www.larrivee.com/data/customerservice/manudate.htm

Jean Larrivee Guitars USA Inc.
1070 Yarnell Place
Oxnard, CA
USA 93033-2454

Fax: 805-487-9950
Email: info@larrivee.com

or

Jean Larrivee Guitars Ltd.
780 E. Cordova St.
Vancouver, BC
Canada
V6A 1M3

Phone 604-253-7111 Fax: 604-253-5447
Email: info@larrivee.com

[Claude]

Hey Matthew,  how about getting the serial numbers on your site so that all of us out there shopping for used Larrivees can tell what year they are?

[Chief48]

Thank you all for your comments.   I sent an email to Larrivee with my serial number and presumably I will get a response.   I do think it would be wise for Larrivee to have that information readily available.  By the way, I'm sure this is a bit of preaching to the choir, but I find my Larrivee to be quite exceptional for the price. 

[Randy_R]

unfortunately, the information would have to be a web program that did a lookup into Larrivee's internal records rather than a straight table. For instance, I received a new 2005 manufactured guitar this year that had a serial number that indicated it started into production quite some time ago. One could conjecture as to why the guitar wasn't completed years ago, but it stayed within Larrivee and was finally finished. There have also been special runs of guitars that didn't follow a sequential numbering scheme with regular production.

besides, Larrivee customer service are a good group to talk with.

[solarbean]

I did an inquiry at that manudate URL and had a response by the next day.

[LvGod]

THe site address is now
http://www.larrivee.com/flash/customerservice/manudate.htm