Help identifying a Larrivee

[smatel]

My cousin has a Larrivee, made in Canada, with a serial number and no model information. It is an OM body type with spruce over sapele or mahogany. Serial number is 030793.

 

I appreciate any help you folks can give me.

 

Thanks

[Queequeg]

email them with the serial number and they will tell you when they started building it and what it is.

Email: info@larrivee.com

[smatel]

Thanks. I did that first, but I get impatient. Thanks again.

[jedistar]

Doesn't look like any other way....

http://www.ducksdeluxe.com/larrivee.html

[JasmineTea]

http://http://www.larrivee.com/flash/products/products.html

[smatel]

 

http://http://www.larrivee.com/flash/products/products.html

 

Thanks.

 

These pictures don't really line up with this axe. For instance, the binding on this guitar is black. Also, the pics of the back and sides for the 03 and 05 don't look anything like cuz's guitar. And this guitar has a rectangular clear pickguard.

 

Is is standard to omit the model info on the label?

[kwakatak]

Well, if this helps:

 

The 01 series (of which there were only 500 made for export to Japan in 2002) had no body binding but had an ivroid-bound fretboard.

 

The binding on the 02 and 03 series (both satin finish) used to be black plastic up until 2003-2004. In 2005 it was changed to curly maple.

 

The 04 series was basically a gloss version of the 03 series.

 

I believe the binding on the 05/09/10 series was formerly white plastic. I think they switched it to curly maple a year or so before the 03 series. At one time (10+ years ago possibly) the body binding may have been rosewood.

 

Up until 2005 the standard pickguard was the clear square-shaped kind. It was kind of a Larrivee trademark. Sometime in the past 2 years they switched to the current tortoiseshell which I believe comes from Italy.

 

Hope that helps, but you'd probably get a more informed identification if you posted a pic over at www.larriveeforum.com.

[jedistar]

https://www.artisanguitars.com/sess/utn;jsessionid=15461a4dfbb9589/shopdata/index.shopscript

 

lots of larrivees here inc a 1995 one a d fair few OMs. If link does not work just type larrivee into search box...may be similar to current catalog though..

[Queequeg]

 

Is is standard to omit the model info on the label?

 

I wouldn't call it standard, but I have a 2002 spruce over mahogany satin parlor with no model on it. I have 3 other Larrivees (including another parlor) and they all display a model on the label.

[smatel]

Huh.

 

For those of you sitting on the edge of your chairs waiting, with bated breath, for the answer, it is an L-02 started in 1999. Mahogany.

 

Thanks for your input.

[Hudman]

Huh. For those of you sitting on the edge of your chairs waiting, with bated breath, for the answer, it is an L-02 started in 1999. Mahogany. Thanks for your input.

 

That changes everything. It's not an OM.

 

The L body is a great design.

[smatel]

OM... L... My eyes work as well as my ears.

[kwakatak]

Could be worse; it could've been an LS. Looks like an L but is about the same size overall as an OM.

[Hudman]

OM... L... My eyes work as well as my ears.

 

That's funny.