Unicorn Classic

“The Unicorn guitar sums up my career so far in many ways. I’m not the biggest fan of “odd looking guitars”. I’m the kind of guy that likes guitars when they are… well – “guitar shaped”. This has always shown in my designs – the flow. The Unicorn takes off where its’ role model stopped, to evolve tonally, structurally and aesthetically to the best of its’ kin – in my interpretation.
My wife Emma had an irreplaceable role in the design process of this guitar, capturing the massive, hundreds of hours lasted process on video, editing the material as many hundreds of hours, so it could finally be published to what you can now see on YouTube, in the form of The Project Unicorn. Without these videos it would’ve been impossible to show you what is special about this guitar – and summing up – what is special about my guitars in general.”


– Juha Ruokangas

UNICORN CLASSIC SPECIFICATIONS

Body:
Handcrafted of Spanish Cedar
Solid, 2-piece
Plain, non-figured Arctic Birch carved top
Thermo Treated topwood
Body binding
Gloss nitrocellulose top finish
Paperthin satin nitrocellulose back finish

Neck:
Handcrafted of Spanish Cedar
Laminated of three pieces
Headstock joined to avoid grain runout
Maple splines under headstock veneer and fretboard
Ebony headstock veneer with pearl inlaid R logo
Long tenon set-neck construction
Indian Rosewood fretboard
Fretboard binding, matching with body
2-way adjustable truss rod
Compensated 24.75” scale length
12” fretboard radius
Unicorn custom fret markers
Dot side markers
22 nickel/silver frets
Ruokangas compensated nut position
Paperthin satin nitrocellulose finish with gloss headstock face

Hardware and electronics:
Nickelplated hardware
TonePros tune-o-matic bridge
TonePros aluminum tailpiece
Gotoh SD510 tuners
Gotoh straplocks
Matched set of Unicorn custom pickups
2 x Volume / 2 x Tone controls
3-way toggle switch
Top quality pots, switches and wires
Fully shielded control cavity

CUSTOMIZE YOUR GUITAR

Without extra cost:
Right/Left handed guitar
Top colour
Natural faux Arctic Birch or Cream binding
Neck profile
Fret size
Amber or Black hat style pot knobs
Cream or Black pickup rings
Cream or Black pickguard
String Gauge

With extra cost:
Subtly / Highly / Exceptionally figured top
More binding options
Several fretboard wood options
Stainless Steel fret material
Goldplated hardware
Bigsby B7 vibrato
Locking Gotoh SD510MG tuners
R custom pot knobs
Many pickup options
3-pickup configuration
Tortoise pickguard
Gloss polyurethane finish

Further custom wishes are more than welcome!

Download this specs sheet as pdf