Jackson Misha Mansoor Juggernaut HT 6, Amber Tiger Eye

Full Description

Distinctive Jackson Body

This Signature Jackson features a uniquely sculpted body inspired by the Dinky series of guitars, which Misha Mansoor upgrading with sleekly scalloped horns and a comfortably contoured neck heel. The body is crafted from lightweight alder, offering a balanced tone with plenty of clarity and body. Alder has been a favourite tonewood in guitar design since the 1950's as the balanced response and slight upper middle definition makes it perfect for many different styles of music. Its topped with stunning quilted maple top and finished in an amber tiger eye colour, creating a visually stunning and eye-casting guitar.

Custom Profiled Neck

The Jackson Misha Mansoor Juggernaut features a bolt-on quartersawn maple neck, shaped with Mansoor’s own custom profile with a hand-rubbed urethane gel back finish for the ultimate playing experience. The neck is constructed with a scarf joint and graphite reinforcement rods, enhancing it stiffness and stability while guarding against temperature and humidity-induced warping. The maple neck is coupled with an ebony fingerboard, providing the guitar with a beautifully bright, warm characteristic, thundering lows, and a pleasing high-end sparkle. A heel-mounted truss rod adjustment wheel allows for quick and easy neck tweaks, even between songs in a set.

Jackson Reverse AT1 Headstock

The incorporation of a three top, three bottom machine head pattern helps to reduce sympathetic vibrations by allowing less room between the nut and machine heads, enhancing this guitar with a pure and charismatic tone.

Bareknuckle Juggernaut Pickups

The Bareknuckle Juggernaut pickups are an extremely powerful set of humbuckers, providing the tone and characteristics guitar legend Misha Mansoor requires to deliver crushing soundscapes and destructive tones. With a huge amount of tightness and attack, the Juggernauts deliver impressive punchy tones perfect for deep, thick riffs, while the versatile dynamics of the alnico magnets provides tonal variety and crisp, smooth leads.

Push/Pull Coil Tap

Also using a push/pull pickup coil tap, the Misha Mansoor Signature Jackson gives you a huge amount of tonal options to experiment with. This setup lets you to switch the pickup settings from a standard humbucker to a single-coil, making it an extremely versatile guitar ideal for live situations when an array of tones are required.

String-Through-Body Hipshot Bridge

Hipshot bridges are renowned for the incredible comfort and string stability, designed with stainless steel saddles which help brightness tone and maximise sustain. Its side walls have been designed to lock the saddles in place, keeping them secure no matter how hard the attack. Its string-through-body setup provides the perfect transfer of string vibration, resulting in an enhanced sustain with improved tuning capabilities.

Misha Mansoor

Misha Mansoor is an American guitarist primarily known for being the lead guitarist of Periphery. Mansoor has spent the last ten years specialising in progressive metal and djent groove metal, and is currently working his first solo album. Along with Steve Vai, both guitarists were selected to feature on the Halo 2 Soundtrack.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Series: Artist Signature
• Top: Quilted Maple
• Body: Alder
• Binding: Wood
• Shape: Juggernaut
• Bridge: Hipshot 6-Fixed
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Amber Tiger Eye

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 1-Piece Quartersawn Maple w/Graphite Reinforcement & Scarf Joint
• Finish: Hand-Rubbed Urethane Gel
• Profile: Mansoor Custom
• Scale Length: 25.5'' (648 mm)
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 20’’ (508mm)
• Binding: Ivoroid
• Frets: 24 Jumbo, Stainless Steel
• Inlays: Piranha Tooth (Small Shark Fin)
• Side Dots: Luminlay Fluorescent
• Nut: Black
• Nut Width: 1.6875'' (42.86 mm)
• Headstock: Jackson 3+3 AT-1

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Bareknuckle Pickups Juggernaut Humbucker (Direct Mount)
• Neck Pickup: Bareknuckle Pickups Juggernaut Humbucker (Direct Mount)
• Controls: Volume, Tone (Push/Pull), 5-Position Blade
• Tuning Machines: Hipshot Open-Gear Locking
• Control Knobs: Hipshot O-Ring
• Hardware: Black
• Strings: D'Addario EXL 117, Gauges: .011-.056 (Bulb Logo)
• Case Included: Custom Black Jackson Case w/Blue Edges & Mansoor’s ‘’Bulb’’ Logo