Hello all,
I wanted to share the story of my d0-3r. I bought it a couple of years ago, and I played it back to back with all the best guitars in the shop. I could honestly say that other guitars sounded different, but none sounded better. The guitar is so loud, so full, and balanced, really amazing. The best thing is that it is so resonant, the sustain goes on forever.
Anyway, you all have heard all about the goodness of these guitars before. The only problem I had with the guitar was that there was some fret buzz. I told the salesman I would buy the guitar on the condition that they would set it up to fix the fret buzz. I was at the shop on a sunday and their set up guy was out, so I had to take a rain check. The shop was an hour away from my house, so I never ended up making it back.
The next summer I went to Greece and brought my guitar. To make a long story short, my friend was riding on the back of my motorcycle (that had no passenger footpegs), we had to make it an hour to Igoumenitsa from Ionian. My friend was carrying about 100 pounds of luggage along with my guitar in a soft back pack case. Sadly, the guitar endied up resting on the high mount exhaust. This happened long enough to char the bottom of the guitar and cause the two halves of the back to separate slightly (less than a hair).
So when I got back to the US, I took it to a well respected luthier, who glued on some cleats on the bottom to stabilize the crack. He also did a fret job and and said the neck was was on the verge of needing to be reset. It is better now after the fret job, good actually but not perfect. I wish I had taken it back at the beginning and everything could have been handled under warranty. I know there was a problem before the heat damage and there is no way to tell now if there was anything wrong with it when it left the factory or what damage was caused by the motorcycle trip. The luthier seemed pretty sure that the frets could not have been messed up from the heat, but who knows.
Anyway, I love the guitar and now it has this cool scar and a story to tell, so i want to keep it. and eventually have the neck reset.
Does anyone know if Larrivee does these kinds of repairs and how much they charge. I would like it to play as perfectly as it sounds.
I have a video up on you tube so you can see and hear the guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCW2nbHoPhUThe moral of the story is, play the guitar before you buy it and don't buy it if it is not perfect. If you do find a problem let your dealer know right away so it can be handled under warranty.