Ruokankaan,kitarat,on parhaita

Kiitos jakamisesta, Juha! Tärkeää henkilökohtaista asiaa, uskon että kertomasi resonoi kitarayhteisössä monen elämässä. Hyvää ja siunattua uutta vuotta!🎸

Happy New Year from USA!

All the best for 2025, Juha... regards from Portugal!

Nice video! I wonder, if you measured the relief before, once you remove the neck can you measure the *change* in relief so that you can always get to 0.2 mm once the neck is on and strings up to tension? For example, say the relief is 0.6mm, from 1st to last fret as measured from the 8th fret, therefore 0.4mm higher than the 0.2mm you want. You loosen the strings and remove the neck, now the relief will be less because there is no string tension. You can measure this with a straight edge and a feeler gauge, perhaps it is (I'm inventing a number) 0.3mm. So you turn the truss rod so that the relief is now 0.3-0.4=-0.1mm, i.e. a backbow of 0.1mm. When you tighten the strings back up it should then be pretty close to 0.2mm. Of course this relies on the assumption that the neck responds linearly to tension in this range. I haven't tried this yet, but if anybody has I'd love to know if it worked!

This is heavy stuff. Thanks for your honesty. Other people would have "sold" it as another positive step for perfectly aligned stars - you did not. This is good. For yourself but also for others, because a lot of people nowadays are facing deep changes with regard to life but also with regard to human interactions, which tend to be more rude. It is good to know that there are still the "good ones", as they are often overheard/missed because of the loudness of (comparably few) people who fully adapted to the direct and brutal "zeitgeist". I play your instruments every week and record songs to cope with the things i encounter. Your positive energy in these instruments means so much for me - i cannot tell you. A permanent and reliable lifesaver. So to sum up up your statement: you did enough! You left no one behind - you influenced and helped many others - and you are probably not aware how often. So Juha: great job! great guy! great and wonder wonderful team! And as Mando would have said: this is the (only) way!

Can we hear the Cedar Body Electric guitar versus the Mahogony? Also, WANT THAT SHIRT. WHERE CAN AMERICANS BUY? Kiitos from America

How mutch euros

Paljonko on hintaa tällä kepillä!

Twenty years warranty, that’s incredible. Truly a dream guitar.

Every guitarist should see this video, even if they don’t play a Les Paul or similar style guitar. I’ve been stringing my guitars this way for over fifty years, and I still learned a few things from this lesson. For instance, I never thought about releasing any twist that may have happened to the string. That alone is worth watching this video. I’ve been using lip balm in my nut slots for many years and it works well, but it’s a little bit messy. I might just invest in a lubricant made for guitars the next time I buy strings. Here are three things I would like to contribute: 1-Some people like to solder the unwound strings near the ball end to keep it from unraveling. In theory this is a good idea, but it’s hard to get solder to stick to the shiny metal and you might ruin the temper of the strings by overheating it. Instead I use a bit of water thin super glue on the lock twist and it works really well. A tiny drop is all you need; capillary action will draw the glue into the lock twist. You have to make sure the glue is completely dry before putting the string through the tail piece. 2-If your guitar has a thicker head stock or shorter tuning posts you will have to be careful not to wind too much string onto the post. This seems to be a particular problem with Epiphone Les Pauls and SGs. If you wind too much string onto the post it will grind the string against the washer on the head stock and ruin the windings. For guitars like this, with the wound strings, once around the post will be sufficient, as long as you use the locking method recommended here. This shouldn’t be a problem with the unwound strings. 3-I’ve seen a lot of videos where the technician cuts the wound strings before winding them onto the post. Even if your strings have a hex-shaped core, this will cause your wound strings to go dead prematurely. Don’t cut the strings until they are locked with the knot recommended here. Thank you so much for this excellent advice. I’ve been a player, builder and tech for many years and I still learned a few things here. This is hands-down the best video I’ve ever seen on how to string a guitar with a 3+3 style head stock. You’ve got my subscription for sure.

Juha! Best wishes and, as you say, time to reflect on what we're grateful for. Life doesn't always throw us what we'd want, but that's the way is supposed to be...glad you have great people around you 🙌

Best wishes for 2025 Juha, to you and all the Ruokangas family. Your clarity, honesty and integrity is greatly valued by us all and your presence enhances many lives every day. I can feel your pain and it has become a common pain - the world is getting crazier with our respective governments and "leaders" seeming to follow a different agenda to those of the people they claim to represent. Stay strong - we, the majority!, are the true believers. We know the importance of family, music/art and life. We feel the beat, know the rhythm, taste the notes and appreciate the harmony. We are you and You are Us. Take care my friend. Ky

gimmicky snake oil, perfect for snob guitarists

Magnifique

What a nice guitar ! 😉

Stunning! And are there engravings on the pickup covers?

I've taken my guitar to many places to adjust the truss rod and they never do it very well. I wonder what they are doing wrong or what is happening to my 50s fender vintera. It is initially perfect and next day it's all wrong again , string buzz or no open chord will sound tuned...hmm I'll try do it myself

Great tutorial!!

Oooh you gotta stop, my mass produced guitars are getting a poorer self image every time i linger longingly over these clips.

Love that emerald finish

Огонь!

I can almost smell that wood library

Gotta love the smell of sanded wood in the morning 😊

My goal in life is to one day have one of these beautiful instruments with fanned frets, like the Dingwall

That is so gorgeous

That is so hot. 3 humbuckers in a strat

I dislike les paul guitars. But now I have found an exception to that. I am willing to wager that this sounds 1000x better than a gibson

Would love to see whinnie the pooh with a valvebucker

That's gorgeous.

Dare I say awesome!

Beautiful guitar

Major league talent.

Ruokankaan,soittimet,on huippuvehkeitä,sopii käteen,soittalle,just,eikä,melkeen..soititinrakentajille,nostan,hattua,ja kaksin käsin.

Very special

Awesome!

Mojo ❤

Smooth

That could be a soundtrack for some old Sierra videogame, has that certain vibe especially with the smooth slides, very nice!

@5:10 you talk about bending before cutting the string with round core, but when you replaced the A string with the GHS boomer after the first string unraveled, you didn't do that. I think all GHS Boomers are round core.

🤤 (drooling face) exquisite

Красотища

Whoever the painted that did an amazing job

Whoever the painted that did an amazing job

Love this finish and the attention to details! 😗👌

She's a beauty! Is that Mikka noodling in the background? Wery good jam.

What an amazing work of Art! and it sounds as killer as it looks!

I, for one, welcome our coming AI overlords

The dream.

Even the back plate looks in awe of this guitar’s undeniable beauty.