STEAM Artist #133

STEAM Artist #133

Steam Artist – the furthest we’ve ever gone One of the key secrets of the sound of the Steam bass has always been our use of thermally aged rock maple as the neck material. It gives the Steam bass its unusually long sustain and even response across the...
STEAM Artist #132

STEAM Artist #132

Steam bass – with neck-through-body..? If you’ve been happy with the traditional approach of our Steam bass design but have yearned for that extra little step into more modern direction – not necessarily ultra-modern that would lose the unique...
UNICORN Classic #240

UNICORN Classic #240

The Key to Finding a Balance in life Some of you might remember our Unicorn Video Diary, a 17-episode YouTube series that documented the complete design process and build of the first Unicorn guitars, introduced in January 2009 at The NAMM Show. That means 2024 is...
VSOP Classic #344

VSOP Classic #344

Two guitars in one? Some of us are drawn to S-style guitars no matter what others we try, and even when we “decide to love” different styles, we soon realize that these other guitars end up for sale, and the S-style is back in vogue! 😁 If you see yourself...
VSOP Deluxe #376

VSOP Deluxe #376

Revontulet – the northern lights Aurora Borealis has been worshipped and feared by humankind throughout millennia. The Cree tribe and Eskimos, among other Indigenous peoples, believed this mysterious phenomenon in the skies was a way of summoning the dead and...
UNICORN Classic #224

UNICORN Classic #224

Does the wood even matter? Some time ago, I mentioned to one of my master luthier’s, Tomi Nivala, that we haven’t had a Unicorn Classic in stock in a while. We didn’t talk much more about it – until I noticed some months later to my pleasant...