Sorta NAD: Ruokangas Mojo Classic

bermudianbrit

Hi all,

So I picked up a Ruokangas (Finish guitar builder) Mojo Classic a few months ago. For the record, it was secondhand, because their prices are truly eye-watering. I've been holding off on posting any pics or comments to see if I would find some things about it I didn't like, and generally to get over the honeymoon phase. Well, here we go (I hope these pics work as they're linked from dropbox):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y9y7etoqd4wcy97/Ruokangas Mojo Classic back body.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bnrcrs3evo1pbhs/Ruokangas Mojo Classic Back full.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84fqhoxmey1qjzu/Ruokangas Mojo Classic back of head.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dmjp8ixtvsxnbxo/Ruokangas Mojo Classic full .jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/syzxhkpsnd433oa/Ruokangas Mojo Classic just body.jpg

The pickups are a single coil Hausel pickup in the bridge, which is tele to the max! Its not particularly hot, and I get a great country twang out of it. When I run it through the Maxon, it winds up very well.
The neck is a Hausel P90. I like it, but I think I would have preferred a full humbucker in that position for jazzy things. The P90 is a touch bright and a touch noisy.
The neck on this is a touch thicker than I was used to and I was really not sure I would like it. But it is the most comfortable thing I've ever played. I'm not sure why, but it just works. I'm a hybrid
 player (Chet Atkins to Brad Paisley) and this neck is the business!

Weird bit of trivia for you...the nut is made of moose bone lol.
All in all its a fantastic guitar and very rare.

Me

bermudianbrit

ehr...NGD even. Not sure how to edit posts so...

Corvus

Excellent, i've admired pics of the Grande before.. flamed birch. Not so exotic but I have some buffalo bone to make nuts from, have made plectrums from it too.
Your pics don't work on PC, on the phone the hyperlinks show so can be clicked. Big fat ol' nothing on the PC though.

Sporky

bermudianbrit said:

ehr...NGD even. Not sure how to edit posts so...

If you move your mouse over the grey bar with your name and avatar in it at the top of your post, on the right hand side a little cog icon will appear. Click that to edit the post, including (if it's the opening post) the title of the thread.

Also what Corvus says - pics aren't showing up on PC.

bermudianbrit

odd that pics don't work. will try with the ?dl=1 suffix.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y9y7etoqd4wcy97/Ruokangas Mojo Classic back body.jpg?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bnrcrs3evo1pbhs/Ruokangas Mojo Classic Back full.jpg?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84fqhoxmey1qjzu/Ruokangas Mojo Classic back of head.jpg?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dmjp8ixtvsxnbxo/Ruokangas Mojo Classic full .jpg?dl=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/syzxhkpsnd433oa/Ruokangas Mojo Classic just body.jpg?dl=1

Sporky

That works. Very nice.

Philly_Q

Well gosh that''s nice, I've always liked the look of Ruokangas guitars.

robgilmo

That's a lottery win guitar right there!

Dominic

That neck is indeed superb,probably the nicest all round neck I have ever played and spectacular quality instrument.

bermudianbrit

yep. Had my doubts until I actually played the thing. Now I'm twanging like crazy.