Reverb alert - Walnut custom OO

[jpmist]

Just an fyi for a rare OO custom. Gorgeous looking wood, and beautiful bling.

https://reverb.com/item/33050111-larrivee-00-40-12-fret-austrian-walnut-custom-shop-rare

Reading between the lines, seems like the seller just didn't like the tone of a walnut top, back and sides he waited 10 months to receive, called it compressed like mahogany. Reminds me of the all hog custom OOV I waited almost a year on and spent 3 years trying to like it before giving up and selling.

The part about no returns really impressed me as being nicely worded. My one fear in selling my surplus gas purchases is the buyer who figures he'll just "try it out" and return it if he doesn't like it, regardless of a specific no return statement. That's cool if you're buying from Guitar Center, but not if a private sale.

[kjon]

That is quite a good-looking OO --$3K asking price

[Queequeg]

Pretty guitar.
I'm not in the market, and haven't played enough walnut to know if I'd like the sound or not.

[B0WIE]

Meh...
If it was priced well I'd be interested as I love walnut but this is what happens when you commission a custom that appeals to a very narrow audience, you don't get your money back unless you're either very patient or very lucky. You can get a used Collings or SCGC for that money, or a nice Larrivee 00 for half that. "Rare" doesn't always mean valuable.
I wouldn't normally criticize a classified here but since the seller didn't make this post, I felt it was fair game.

[jpmist]

For what it's worth I did some sleuthing of his seller feedback and it seems the seller knows his walnut guitars having tried out several of them, but they were mostly larger bodied ones. I'm thinking going as small as an OO didn't work for him. My OO-05 is very resonant, but a spruce top has a hardness rating about half that of walnut so that may explain his disappointment in bonding to the tone of his custom order. For the record I'm not a fan of equally hard mahogany tops for that reason - to my bad ears, great fundamental notes but not much else.

And I hate to reprise my "tsk tsk" for how Larrivee treats their most fervent and loyal customers like this seller in making them wait 10 months to deliver a custom order. I'm pretty sure if I started today with the zero knowledge I have of building and zero tools I'd have one out sooner than that. Of course it'd sound like crap but making a pretty wood box with bracing, frets and a neck joint has already been worked out pretty thoroughly by the factory so I can't understand why a custom takes longer than their routine ones. If the factory could guarantee me a 3 month time slot, I'd order a custom OOV-05 in a heartbeat.

[ducktrapper]

People, myself included, can be such idiots. I believe this is what happens when you are always searching for something special to make up for what you can't find in your fingers. 

[Mikeymac]

People, myself included, can be such idiots. I believe this is what happens when you are always searching for something special to make up for what you can't find in your fingers. 

Yep. Been there, done that. Hate to admit it, but it's true. (Might be why I've sold a bunch of guitars recently.) 

[ducktrapper]

Yep. Been there, done that. Hate to admit it, but it's true. (Might be why I've sold a bunch of guitars recently.) 

First world problems?   

[Mikeymac]

First world problems?   

Definitely. Poor us, huh?