SOLD: Larrivee CS-10 Special Edition with Florentine Cutaway

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Offering a stellar Larrivee CS-10 Special Edition with Florentine Cutaway in near mint condition
I've been a member here for a couple of years and have read and learned alot but have not been a contributor. 100% feedback on ebay as user downtime9

SOLD

Beautiful sounding, playing and appointed with AAA grade tonewoods.
This guitar as been babied and is in near mint condition, always properly humidified. No dings.


Candian Sitka Spruce top
Indian Rosewood back, sides and binding
Abalone body purfling and rosette
upgraded to bone pins and gold grover tuners with ebony buttons
1 3/4" nut width, fully bound fretboard
15" lower bought, full scale
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Original archtop HSC

[Strings4Him]

What year is this?  Are you the original owner?  Other than the tuners, have there been any other modifications?

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This was made in 2000. I am not the original owner but the guitar is all original except for the tuners and bridge pins, no other mods to my knowledge.  I do have both the original chrome tuners and ebony pins and could swap them out if preferred.

[fitness1]

No big deal, but I think if it's a California guitar it has to be at least a 2001....the factory was set to open right when 911 happened if I remember right, and it was postponed temporarily.   These "special edition" guitars without the fingerboard and bridge wing inlays were done because they hadn't move the machines in that did those inlays.

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@fitness1: Thanks for that info, pretty interesting. I was curious about the date and also the top wood. This spruce has visual and tonal qualites similar to an Engelmann topped Martin I owned so I inquired with Larrivee by email and here is the response I received:

Thanks for writing in.

This model CS-10 was built on 6-13-2000.  The spruce should be Canadian Sitka Spruce.  The CS body shape was built regularly back in the 90's.  Today we make something similar, the LSV body shape.  Only difference is the type of cutaway.  Jean usually has some part in every Florentine cutaway model as he usually only trusts himself to complete the job.
Have a great day!

-Mike Kitchen
Jean Larrivée Guitars USA
1070 Yarnell Place
Oxnard, CA 93033

[fitness1]

Interesting.....they must have built some in Vancouver and slapped California stickers on them later on.

This is right from the Larrivee "history" part of their site....

On September 1st 2001 Larrivee expanded again, and opened the door on it's new factory in southern California. Ten days later the events of 9/11 occurred. As you can imagine this was not a time for companies to be expanding

[AZLiberty]

Interesting.....they must have built some in Vancouver and slapped California stickers on them later on.

This is right from the Larrivee "history" part of their site....

Probably the neck was built in Vancouver.  Remember the "made on" date is the date Larrivee assigned a serial number and stamped it on the neck block, not the date it was finished.  We've seen a few instruments on the forum before where the build date and the finish date were several years apart.

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Price has been dropped

[gtq]

Hello, is this guitar still available? I'm interested in it and could you please send some information to my email zzhgutianqi@qq.com?

[JOYCEfromNS]

Hello, is this guitar still available? I'm interested in it and could you please send some information to my email zzhgutianqi@qq.com?

Guitar seems to have been sold about a year ago.