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The Larrivee Forum VI Guitar

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
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    #5

    I hope it exceeds your expectations!

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • MikM Mik

      I hope it exceeds your expectations!

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      #6

      @mik said in The Larrivee Forum VI Guitar:

      I hope it exceeds your expectations!

      It does. Plays like butter. Sound is full and articulate. Balanced, warmish tone overall. Still finding my way around it but so far, it's a keeper.

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      • George KG Offline
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        Very nice, Mark.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • markM mark

          @mik said in The Larrivee Forum VI Guitar:

          I hope it exceeds your expectations!

          It does. Plays like butter. Sound is full and articulate. Balanced, warmish tone overall. Still finding my way around it but so far, it's a keeper.

          20220105-115324.jpg

          20220105_115355.jpg

          20220105-120529.jpg

          20220105-115523.jpg

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          @George-K Thanks! I know it's not a piano so not too many here get excited about such things. I still like my piano. Been playing it more lately.

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            Copper
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            #9

            This guy, Vic Flick, played everything on this guitar.

            Everything, with everybody

            I hadn't heard this before, what a history!

            I just came across this on Facebook today.

            Link to video

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              The nice thing about the acoustic is it will get better with age.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • CopperC Copper

                This guy, Vic Flick, played everything on this guitar.

                Everything, with everybody

                I hadn't heard this before, what a history!

                I just came across this on Facebook today.

                Link to video

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                mark
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                @copper Cool video. I did not know him.

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                • JollyJ Jolly

                  The nice thing about the acoustic is it will get better with age.

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                  mark
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                  @jolly Absolutely!

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                    What are the kinds of things that make this custom guitar different from a standard off-the-shelf guitar in a similar price range?

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                    • KlausK Klaus

                      What are the kinds of things that make this custom guitar different from a standard off-the-shelf guitar in a similar price range?

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                      • markM mark

                        @copper Cool video. I did not know him.

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                        @mark said in The Larrivee Forum VI Guitar:

                        @copper Cool video. I did not know him.

                        Flick appeared on a 2013 episode of the History Channel show Pawn Stars titled "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service". Here he brought in his 1961 Fender Stratocaster guitar to shop owner Rick Harrison, who, after consulting Jesse Amoroso, settled on a price of $55,000 for the guitar.[8] The guitar sold at auction in 2014 for $25,000.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • KlausK Klaus

                          What are the kinds of things that make this custom guitar different from a standard off-the-shelf guitar in a similar price range?

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                          @klaus said in The Larrivee Forum VI Guitar:

                          What are the kinds of things that make this custom guitar different from a standard off-the-shelf guitar in a similar price range?

                          In this instance, the guitar was based on an existing production body shape and size, the LS/LSV model. The wood combination of Black Walnut and Alpine Spruce has been done before but not in this model. The 12 fret neck join, the bracing pattern on the top (soundboard), the absence of the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 15th fret dot/diamond inlays, the custom 12th fret inlay, all combined to create a unique guitar that Larrivee had never built before.

                          Now there are 19 Limited Editions in circulation.

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                            LuFins Dad
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                            Looks beautiful!

                            The Brad

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                            • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                              Looks beautiful!

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                              @lufins-dad They really hit it out of the park. I can't put it down. Even with a cut on my right hand ring finger, I just keep plating through the pain. Who knows? Maybe I will write some blues. lol

                              While I try to find time and inspiration to actually sit down and record something...

                              I designed and printed a guitar pick to commemorate the Forum VI guitar. I am sending one or more to every person that bought a Forum VI.

                              Thought you all might like to see it and some of the variations I designed coming up with the final simple result in the last photo/video

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                              I narrowed it down to two versions. I am not opposed to the more complicated designs, I just decided to keep it simple.

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                              Printing one of the final designs in brown and terra cotta

                              Link to video

                              First batch of 9 complete.
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                                The guitar looks awesome!!

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                                  Ten of us lucky people have received the guitar so far. I have sent out 10 small cards with 5 of the 3D printed picks attached, so far. Six people are still waiting to get their guitars. I also sent a pick pack to Larrivée.

                                  One of the forum members put together this photo of all the backs.

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                                  Even though they are all spec'd the same, they are all individual, unique, creations.

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