How many models in TSB?

[Tycho]

Lord help me, but I'm developing a fixation with TSB Larrivees.  (Could be an expensive habit, I know.)  (And the fact that I have a beautiful picture of an OM-50 or 60 TSB as my computer wallpaper isn't helping.)

Anyway, does anyone have an exhaustive list of models that have been issued with a TSB finish?  I can think of the Parlors, as well as the trad-series 0s, 00s and 000s, and of course the SD.  I've seen ads featuring TSB dreads and OMs in the trad series.  Anything else?   

[whiskeyjack]

"TSB" is vaguely familiar but I can't place the acronym.  What's it mean?

[Tycho]

Tobacco sunburst.

[Steve]

In suburst this is what listed on the Larrivée site.

OM-50 TSB
SD-50 TSB
000-50 TSB
OM-60 SBT
SD-60 SBT
P09 FM TSB

TSB is total sunburst, top, back and sides
SBT is just the sound board

I also read that if you have a sunburst Jean sprayed it himself, no one else does them at the factory.

[roknroll]

is it just me, or does anyone else think that the larrivee sunburst looks funny? 

[Randy_R]

If you're going to sing cowboy songs around the campfire, ya gotta have a sunburst...  :WNK>

[Steve]

If you're going to sing cowboy songs around the campfire, ya gotta have a sunburst...

Oh man I could not resist diggin up drathbun's great picture!  I guess if you sit on a fence by the corral you don't need a sunburst. :GRN>

[PortHueneme]

How about a sunburst ?


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[whiskeyjack]

Tobacco sunburst

= TBS

D'oh!!  I KNEW that!!  :rolleyes:

But it's true.  It's heresy to sing cowboy songs around a campfire without a sunburst guitar.  Just like you really shouldn't be singing and playing the blues with a guitar that has NOT been bought from a pawn shop.  Guitars without cigarette burns and without the smell & stains of stale beer have no credibility in the genre of blues music.   ^_^ :GRN>

[guitaradoptions]

There is also a P-05MT TSB, and an SD50 TSB! 

[wyodeb]

Don't forget Pete :GRN>

Deb

[prof_stack]

is it just me, or does anyone else think that the larrivee sunburst looks funny?

I fail to see the humor...

Perhaps its an acquired taste.  Or maybe how the sunburst flares out from the lower bout.

But I do have a question:  Why do Larrivee sunbursts cost SO much more than their non-sunburst models.  The Martin sunbursts are only a few hundred more.

[whiskeyjack]

Ya but, the Martins are a lot more expensive than Larrivees to begin with. 

[Cowgirlie]

Those sunbursts are done by hand by Jean himself, and it it a very time consuming process. They also do the 000-60 in a top Sunburst.He showed me a pair of them he was doing for Norman Blake back when I was at the factory in early June.
Now, for Cowboy music being with Sunbursts, some artists do like them, I am a folkie at heart who loves western subject matter, and I love the look of natural wood. The majority of folks I know who do Cowboy and Western music play natural toned tops...but there are some nice bursts out there. It's all a matter of taste. I can sure appreciate the work involved in a sunburst, just like I can appreciate a beautifully done custom motorcycle...not my thing, but beautiful all the same. Jean's sunbursts have a unique clarity to the colors, something we have gotten used to NOT seeing on other sunburts finish guitars. 

[Sordello]

If you're going to sing cowboy songs around the campfire, ya gotta have a sunburst...  :WNK>

Sit really close to the campfire and you can make your own sunburst!

Seriously though, I like the slight variation on the normal sunburst that this Martin has. Very tasteful, and a Larrivee abalone rosette would really be set off nicely with this style!






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[prof_stack]

Sordello, that slight variation on the Martin is their amberburst, a popular custom option. 

As far as Martins costing more, the high end Larrys with burst are priced pretty high, too.  Take your pick.

[solarbean]

Sit really close to the campfire and you can make your own sunburst!

After a bowl of camp-beans you can sit close to the fire and   

:EM>

uh... forget I said that

[drathbun]

Oh man I could not resist diggin up drathbun's great picture!  I guess if you sit on a fence by the corral you don't need a sunburst. :GRN>

Or if you have a copy of Photoshop! Hehehe...

I played a SD-50 TSB yesterday at a local shop. Beautiful guitar! The TSB really needs to be seen to be appreciated... it doesn't come out well in photos... much like the fireglo of a Rickenbacker needs to be seen to believe.