My wife and I love our Larrivee guitars. But I've always wondered why they make their cutaways with a ledge?

 :welcome: Throatsinger

Not sure what you mean by cutaways with a ledge  :?

Larrivee have two types of cutaway guitars. Florentine  and Venetian. Usually described in their model naming as a C and V. An example of the latter is OMV.

Here are pics of my LV-72 and C-10. (Careful some find the bling hard on the eyes where as I am starstruck by the Larrivee bling  :smile:

Oh BTW  :gotdonuts:

Quote from: JOYCEfromNS on April 12, 2020, 08:41:20 AM
Not sure what you mean by cutaways with a ledge  :?

Where the body parallels the neck and sticks out, instead of being planar. It's right there in your picture.
Kevin calls it a speed bump.

Interesting. I had never even noticed or felt that before. I guess it would depend on technique or hand size as to whether it bothers a person. Maybe they haven't had enough people complain about it to change it.

Quote from: B0WIE on April 12, 2020, 09:59:27 PM
Interesting. I had never even noticed or felt that before. I guess it would depend on technique or hand size as to whether it bothers a person. Maybe they haven't had enough people complain about it to change it.

And honestly, I never thought about it before it came up recently in another thread.
I have a C-05 and an LV-10, but I am not a high register guy, so I never noticed it.
It is a rare day where I play that high up the neck.
Mike

I would speculate that Larrivee keeps all of their cutaway and non-cutaway neck blocks the same so their cutaway bump ends up wider than, say, Taylor which trims the cutaway side of their neck block.