Larrivée 'Presentation' D-10 King Koa
"The Quest for Perfect Tone and Uncompromising Physical Beauty…"

This 15 3/4-inch-wide, 4 7/8 inch-deep Dreadnought guitar with symmetrical Parabolic X-Bracing, weighs just 4.90 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Highly flamed two-piece, book-matched Hawaiian Koa top. Highly flamed two-piece, book-matched Hawaiian Koa back. Highly flamed Hawaiian Koa sides. Elaborate seven-ply including abalone and maple on top and bottom of body. Three sets of elaborate soun-dhole rings, the center one with a ring of abalone. One-piece mahogany neck with a medium-to-thin profile. Black laminate faced headstock with "Larrivée" inlaid in abalone and single line border of abalone. Individual Larrivée 'Rotomatic' tuners with half-moon shaped metal buttons. Single-bound ebony fretboard with 20 medium-thin frets and inlaid abalone 'wing' markers. Clear acetate pickguard. TUSQ compensated bridge saddle on an ebony base with black pins with abalone dots. Inside the sound-hole is a rectangular white label with "Jean Larrivé / Guitars Ltd. / Vancouver / British Columbia / Canada". The serial number "10 / 43810" is blind stamped into the neck block. This beautiful guitar is in mint (9.50) condition. Housed in it's original Larrivee five-latch, dark gray shaped hardshell case with black plush lining (9.25).

The 'Presentation' guitars that Larrivée produced up to the beginning of the new millenium were some of the most striking instruments they ever produced.

"The quest for perfect tone and uncompromising physical beauty in a Larrivée guitar always comes back to the wood. Sourcing the highest quality materials available and constantly striving to extract maximum value out of every single board foot is a mandate we take very seriously. To find the best wood for a guitar, we travel the globe – hiking mud-drenched trails to select Koa from Hawaiian mountainsides, striding the log booms of the Pacific Northwest to find premium spruce, or selecting mahogany and rosewood from South America, India or Africa. The search is painstaking, and sometimes we come up empty-handed. Only one in a hundred spruce logs yields suitable tone wood for producing guitars. And only one in a hundred of those is accepted by Larrivée. We don’t make a “big deal” about the fact that we often harvest logs that are naturally fallen; that’s just the way we’ve always done it, that’s the respect we have for the resource. Because we take so much pride in the wood we use, we cannot not always guarantee that we have these woods in stock for an order. Other makers will just call up a supplier and order a set of "any old wood", we on the other hand will not use a set of wood unless it is the right set. The grain, color, rigidity, and weight all have to be just right in order for us to build it. Contact your local dealer to find out if we are currently offering a particular species." (Larrivée website).