I'm the original owner of early Larrivee Bakersfield. It is a great telecaster. Extremely well made, beautiful rosewood 1 3/4" round full neck, a lam/veneer fingerboard vs slab. I got one of the first rosewood board models Larrivee made. The guitar came with the traditional tele pickup set. I bought an additional Bakelite pickguard from Larrivee that was routed for a mini-hum. The guitar currently has a Lollar minihumbucker in the neck and a Lolllar BS Tele in the bridge. The those two pickups in this guitar sound almost identical except for the differences due to pickup location. I should also mention I replaced the 3 barrel Callaham bridge for a six saddle Gotoh.
PS: Attempted to correct rotation of picture and instead uploaded both and can't seem to delete the lower one.
When I had Laurent Brondel build me a wider than standard Tele about 4 years ago, he used a 1-11/16” (42.9 mm) nut width instead of the standard 1-5/8” (41.3 mm). For string spacing we used 2-1/8” (54.0 mm) instead of the standard 2-1/16” (52.4 mm) as well. The later was the widest supported by available Tele hardware. What we also did was to use a deeper “D” shaped neck profile which I really liked. These subtle changes in geometry made a big difference for me.
I'm digging the Laravee Bakersfield and Laurent Brondel Teles, but currently happy with my Fender Richie Kotzen Tele with its 1.650" (42 mm) nut.
I added a concentric tone control (these do not come with a tone pot) over the volume pot and couldn't be happier with the results. Great jazz, rock, RnB tones and no hand cramping in the first position.
I am no authority but I have played a LOT of Telecaster guitars over the past 55 years. Vintage Fenders had A, B, C, and D necks that many guitarists think refer to the neck carve. The letters refer to the nut width. A is 1.5 ". I have only played A neck Jazz Basses. Most vintage Telecasters are B and C necks. Never seen a D. C is about 1.65" and is good for a Fender.
I now play an after market neck that is an inch deep and about 1 75" at the nut. Excellent but Fender doesn't carve this .
Thanks for all the thoughts. On the recording, I don’t think it sounded bad, just not what I was expecting, as PaulN pointed out.
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