Parlour pics.

[ACE]

Hello,
Just got a new camera, so what do you do?
You take pictures of your Larrivee!
I've downloaded to picsplace, so lets see if I
can post them to the forum...
Hmmm, it looks complicated.
If you dont see pics, just ignore me.
ACE

[ACE]

Well blow me down,
it's not as hard as I thought
The final pic I've added is a close up of
some strange scratches on the guitar's
back, below the varnish.
I've mentioned the scratches in a previous post,
but was universally ignored.
But now you can see 'em what caused them,
and do you have them too?
ACE

[Denis]

Looks like someone took a red ballpoint pen to the guitar?  Never seen anything like that before.  BTW Ace....that parlor...

I am a huge parlor fan.  I've never tried a P-05...one day, one day.

[Blue in VT]

ACE...

What a sweet guitar...amzing siling on the top...and I love the gloss over mahogany...really brings out the depth in the wood....bet she sounds sweet too...

That mark on the back is weird...is it under the finish? 

Congrats

Blue

[maxferry]

Very sweet little axe! They have such a nice renaissence-music mojo...very John Rebourne sounding.

That squiggly line is from an orbital sander. It picked up a piece of grit shedded by the sandpaper. It just means that the guy who sanded this didn't change his paper soon enough. You can see a lot of these on satin-finished guitars, because they don't do the final finish-sanding step that gets done on gloss axes; that mark would have normally come out of there in final sanding but I guess they missed it.

[jimmy buffett]

That pattern looks to be quite consistant, like it was created by the action of something mechanical.  Not at all like someone being careless with a hand tool or something.  I don't recall your earlier post, but did you bring this to the attention of your dealer.  It's hard to imagine that he would not acknowledge the imperfection.  

I would forward these pictures to Larrivee and see what response they give you.

And by the way, those are great pics!  I can't seem to master the art of photographing my guitars, but I see that many of our fellow forum members are quite creative.



jimmy

[ACE]

Hello again,
The P-05 is indeed a wonderful guitar,
amazingly I bought it sight unseen on e-bay
here in the UK. (Larivee's are scarce over here)
The seller just could not get on with it.
I literally can hardly put it down.
It is immaculate, apart from the swirls
pictured. There are lots of them, all over the back and under
the finish. You can only see them in certain light conditions,
I didn't notice them for weeks.
Needless to say they dont bother me in the least,
just curious thats all.
ACE
ps
I should mention and thank forumites for alerting me
to Larrivee parlours in the first place!

[Denis]

Yeah Larrivee parlors and L's can't be found anywhere else but Larrivee.  I highly recommend owning at least one of each no matter what flavour you prefer, mahogany, rosewood, all mahogany, walnut, sapele...etc.  The L is very versatile and can handle just about anything.  And then there's the parlor.  Comfortable, easy to play, punchy, balanced across the strings...a fingerstyle dream guitar.  I need more now.  I have GAS but can wait.  I will eventually convince myself that I need a rosewood L...an L-09 would be nice but I think I could be happy with an L-03R.

ACE, I know what you mean about not being able to put it down...enjoy it...it's only goinna get better!

[ACE]

Maxferry and Jimmy,
I agree, I thought it was probably in the
mechanical sanding that the swirls occurred.
A loose grit as you say.
But hey, who cares, nobody notices it unless I point it out.
It hasn't put me off Larrivees, I'm planning to sell one
of my Beltonas, to buy another Larry.
It wont bother me at all if the next one has swirls too!
ACE

[gtrplayer]

Those marks appear to be that of a rotary sander.  I see similiar marks in the furniture i make sometimes.  Imperceptable at times but there nonetheless.

gtrplayer l

[Old Geezer]

Sweet little axe!

Those marks are definitely from an orbital sander. Either a worn out paper or a piece of grit picked up.
My OM-03R is full of them but because of the darker rosewood, they didn't show until I polished it.
I just filled 'em in and buffed some more!

OG

[hatofthecat]

Nice 05 ACE    looks like more parlors in UK every day    ...how big are those swirly marks ? Is good you can live with them, after all a guitar is for making music its not a piece of furniture to look at and polish.... well not ALL the time anyway 

Just walting on my rosewood special edition which Parcelforce tracking says is now on way to delivery depot    so should be in my sticky paws tomorrow.  Meanwhile here's a pic of the 1999 satin parlor (stripped of all her ebony additions) I had to sell to help pay for it...... still.... "nice bedsheet"   

Pete

[ACE]

That's a pornographic picture isn't it?
ACE

[hatofthecat]

That's a pornographic picture isn't it?

...yeah  ...but get a load of the hot little minx I chucked her in for 

Pete

[ACE]

Hey Pete,
Nice bedsheet again!
Seriously though that's one
beautiful guitar.
ACE

[hatofthecat]

Seriously though that's one beautiful guitar.

Thanks ACE am really pleased with my new acquisition (no ! ...not the bedsheet  ).

Pete

[Denis]

I used to have one just like it.  They are nice to be sure.  Rosewood is a good wood for these little beauties.  They ring and ring and overtone galore.  As nice as it was, if I could only have one parlor...well, I've already got it.  My all mahogany is one nice little fingerpicking machine.  Congrats Pete.