Cutaway Question

[Throatsinger]

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

[JOYCEfromNS]

  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  

Oh BTW  

[mike in lytle]

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.

[B0WIE]

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.

[mike in lytle]

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

[jpmist]

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.