Juha Ruokangas is the guy to blame of starting all this - designing, building and bringing these guitars on the market.
He conducts our little circus, and takes part in crafting guitars whenever and as much as possible.
Juha claims openly that Ruokangas Guitars builds the best electric guitars in the world. What arrogance...
Jyrki Kostamo has worked as a professional luthier at Ruokangas shop since 2001.
He focuses mainly on the Vsop and Mojo models as well as the new lines Bomber and Hellcat.
Jyrki lets steam out by playing guitar in local metal bands. This dude has an (almost) endless patience.
Tomi "El Magico" Nivala joined the Ruokangas team in 2004. He's a professional luthier, and focuses mainly on building Duke models and exotic one-offs.
Tomi plays actively in two bands, Heartburn and
Re-Pulse. Tomi is the official nutcase of our team.
Emma Elftorp a professional luthier from the west coast of Sweden. She joined the Ruokangas team in 2006.
Emma is the one who takes care of this MySpace page amongst her other duties.
She also looks after the rest of the team from getting into trouble...
We have two additional team members; Mika Koskinen and Jiri Kaarmela, operating in another town,
responsible for the invaluable tonewood supply and rough cut of our Vsop and Mojo series bodies and necks.
Here pictured Mika - Mr. Arctic Birch himself.
Friends of Ruokangas Guitars
Juha and Tommy Emmanuel with his Mojo Grande
Taylor Hicks and Josh Smith with his Duke TwinSonic
Rainer Nygård of Diablo with his Ruokangas Custom P69/8SL
Mick Box of Uriah Heep with his Duke Custom
JayJay French of Twisted Sister with his Mojo Grande and Juha Ruokangas
Jukka Tolonen with his Duke JT Custom
Juha Torvinen of Eppu Normaali with his Mojo Classic
History Ruokangas Guitars was founded in 1995 by luthier Juha Ruokangas. The story goes from repairing guitars in the
late '80s to studying guitar building under guidance of the finest Finnish luthiers in the early '90s - then launching the company and
building guitars in his 35 square meter workshop since 1995. The workshop has expanded step by step to its current form, 250 square facility
with handful of skilled luthiers crafting about 100 unique guitars a year.
Different guitars What makes Ruokangas guitar
different from the rest? First of all, Ruokangas uses materials not traditionally seen in electric guitars. Spanish Cedar, Arctic Birch and
Moose Shin Bone have become synonymous to the Ruokangas name in the world of boutique guitars over the last decade. Secondly, Ruokangas uses
ThermoTreatment - a revolutionary patented technology to replicate the effects of aging in the cellular structure of tonewood. Find out more
of what we're about from our official website.
A few words from Juha "Our work is a testimony for the old world values. We
have consciously decided not to be part of the ongoing industrial race for cheaper labour and bigger profits. Our simple task is to make our
living by building guitars, and to cherish the tradition of handcraft - even if it wouldn't always be the most efficient and profitable way."
- Juha Ruokangas
The festival takes place: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 16.00-22.00.
The stage is called Parksnäckan and is located in the centre of Uppsala.
Svenska Art Rock Föreningen Crimson, SARF Crimson (in translation The Swedish Art Rock Society Crimson), is a music society which was founded in Uppsala in 1992. The society’s main purpose is to promote and expose the progressive rock music genre.
Welcome to the city that has been giving birth to the following progressive rock bands: Samla Mammas Manna, Kaipa, Fantasia, Manticore, The Flower Kings, Pär Lindh Project (PLP), Ensemble Nimbus, Indisciplined Lucy, Violent Silence and Flying Food Circus.
Tickets can be bought at www. ticnet. se and at the local newspaper office, UNT City, at Dragarbrunnsgatan 24.
I want to thank you for making this awesome guitar for me…. It’s clearly the best guitar I’ve ever played. The sound of it is just amazing with my tube driven Marshall and Engl amps. And let’s not forget how beautiful it looks like..it’s a masterpiece..I think I’ll never play with an other guitar again (unless it’s made by you guys). This guitar was probably a big challenge for you because I wanted something vintage feeling combined with a modern touch. The result was even better than I could ever imagine. So, thanks for making this guitar for me. I am very anxious to get playing it on the forthcoming second Amberian Dawn album!!
Juha Ruokangas is the guy to blame of starting all this - designing, building and bringing these guitars on the market.
He conducts our little circus, and takes part in crafting guitars whenever and as much as possible.
Juha claims openly that Ruokangas Guitars builds the best electric guitars in the world. What arrogance...
Jyrki Kostamo
Tomi
Emma Elftorp a professional luthier from the west coast of Sweden. She joined the Ruokangas team in 2006.
Emma is the one who takes care of this MySpace page amongst her other duties.
She also looks after the rest of the team from getting into trouble...
We have two additional team members; Mika Koskinen and Jiri Kaarmela, operating in another town,
responsible for the invaluable tonewood supply and rough cut of our Vsop and Mojo series bodies and necks.
Here pictured Mika - Mr. Arctic Birch himself.
