Inlay-laden Excellence from Larrivée’s Prestigious Deluxe Series
Featuring appointments personally selected by Matt, Jean, and Wendy Larrivée, this Larrivée LV-10 Rosewood takes the brand’s classical-inspired cutaway model to towering new heights. From the stunning Shamrock patterns atop the mahogany neck’s ebony fingerboard to the headstock’s fire-breathing Dragon design, this exquisite acoustic serves as the canvas for Wendy Larrivée’s inlay expertise. Similarly, the Sitka spruce top and rosewood back and sides were personally chosen, cut, and voiced by Jean and Matt Larrivée to ensure that this LV-10 sings to its full potential. Formed into Larrivée’s signature L-shape and supported by parabolic X-bracing, these top-tier tonewoods grant the LV-10 a sound that’s full-bodied, rippling with overtones, and perfectly balanced. An eye-catching arrangement of gorgeous bridge inlays, multi-piece purfling, and a multi-ring abalone rosette only bolsters this LV-10’s beauty. It all adds up to an heirloom-worthy instrument that encapsulates Larrivée’s utter mastery of acoustic artistry.
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Multigenerational inlay mastery
Larrivée’s sterling reputation for intricate inlay work stretches all the way back to the mid-1970s, when Jean Larrivée’s wife, Wendy, first began designing, cutting, and engraving the brand’s eye-catching adornments. A half-century later, Wendy’s old-world craftsmanship still graces the custom inlays found on the brand’s premier models. Today, Wendy’s process now incorporates CNC precision with the help of her son, Matt, ensuring that the distinctive designs found on your Larrivée’s headstock and fingerboard are the finest produced in the company’s storied history.
Tonewoods chosen, cut, and voiced by Jean and Matt Larrivée
This top-of-the-line Larrivée creation boasts tonewoods personally selected, matched, and voiced by Matt and Jean Larrivée. This father-and-son team has more than a century’s worth of luthier’s intuition between the two of them, and they put it to good use examining, flexing, and tapping each piece of timber in their collection until they find the perfect combination of tonewoods that sing in perfect sonic and aesthetic harmony.
For this LV-10, Matt and Jean selected a choice slab of Sitka spruce for the top, supporting it with their tried-and-trusted parabolic X-bracing. It's by far the most common top wood found across Larrivée's entire lineup of acoustic guitars, and for good reason, too — Sweetwater's acoustic obsessives have long championed the sweet, responsive, and balanced tone of high-grade Sitka spruce. Paired with the powerful sound of a rosewood body, this LV-10 packs a truly do-it-all flexibility that takes on intimate fingerstyle and strumming accompaniment with equal aplomb.
Larrivée: world-class craftsmanship
Founded in 1967 in Canada, Larrivée honed its vision and craft among the Sitka spruce forests of Vancouver. Eventually, the company moved not overseas but to California, where Larrivée still crafts guitars that emphasize fine tonewoods and premium aesthetics at player-friendly prices. Goals like “affordable luxury” and ethically sourced wood are anchored in real-world action — for example, how Larrivée relies on ethically sourced FSC woods. The company’s passion and appreciation for the natural beauty of our forests let players like you responsibly incorporate pieces of nature into your life in the form of a guitar.
Larrivée LV-10 Rosewood Deluxe Series Features:
- Custom-spec creation from Larrivée’s Deluxe Series, featuring stunning inlay work and treasure-grade tonewoods
- Attention-demanding Dragon headstock inlay and Shamrock fingerboard inlays, arranged and installed with care by Wendy and Matt Larrivée
- Tonewoods hand-selected and voiced by Jean and Matt Larrivée
- Sitka spruce top with parabolic X-bracing rings with a sweet, responsive, and balanced timbre
- Rosewood back and sides supply a powerful low-end thump and singing top-end chime
- 1-piece mahogany neck carved into a comfortable Larrivée profile
- 16-in.-radius ebony fingerboard with sleek maple binding
- Top-of-the-line JCL tuning machines keep your strings pitch-perfect
- Deep Venetian cutaway offers easy access to the upper register
- 1.75-in. nut width is wide enough to accommodate fingerpickers without compromising on strumming and flatpicking maneuverability
- High-class aesthetic appointments include a multi-ring abalone rosette, beautifully inlaid purfling, and striking bridge inlays
