2004 Larrivee P-05

After more than 30 years of building guitars exclusively in Canada, Jean Larrivee established a state-of-the-art facility in Oxnard, California, in 2001. In the early days, this new facility allowed Larrivee to explore new avenues and produce greater numbers of guitars with the same level of quality and workmanship that built the company's reputation. In 2013, Larrivee ultimately closed the doors of its Canadian operations to concentrate all of its production in its California location. The early US-made Larrivee guitars are exceptional instruments, built to the refined designs Jean Larrivee began exploring in the late '60s. While the Canadian-made Larrivees of the '90s appeal primarily to fingerstyle players, the US-made Larrivees of the early '00s seem to capture more versatility and produce sounds that are usable across a variety of genres and playing styles. This 2004 Oxnard, Ca.-made P-05 illustrates that. The P-05 is inspired by the small-body 12-fret guitars of the Parlor Music