.jpeg)
“This is a first-edition Jackson USA Juggernaut HT7,” explains Periphery’s Misha Mansoor as he plays his rare Silver Burst signature model with a fingerboard inlay by Fender Master Builder Ron Thorn. “And it’s a guitar I thought I would never see again.”
For a while, the instrument had vanished from his orbit—until a late-night scroll on tour delivered a surprise.
“I was on tour, doomscrolling in my bunk, and I got a targeted ad from Guitar Center showing a picture of this guitar,” says Mansoor. “It’s very unique—there is only one guitar in the world that looks like this. I clicked on the ad and saw it was in a Guitar Center in Florida. I was like, ‘Hey—that’s my guitar.’”
Next, Mansoor reached out to Guitar Center to see if he could arrange the guitar’s return. The conclusion of the story was a happy one.
“Guitar Center very kindly reunited me with this guitar,” he says.
Mansoor considers the first-edition Jackson USA Juggernaut HT7 as a very special model with a lot of history and incredible mojo.
You can hear why in the video, as Mansoor plays a selection of chunky, aggro riffs and even some gorgeous, reverb-drenched clean licks. Part of the tonal recipe is due to the Juggernaut’s prototype set of Bare Knuckle Ragnarok pickups, which Mansoor says determined the architecture of future Ragnarok models.
“We designed the Ragnarok pickups in this guitar,” he explains. “So, the guitar and pickups all work as one cohesive package. I think it’s surprising that, although I wanted the Ragnaroks to be super aggressive, they also work really well for clean tones.”
Happily, this story of loss and recovery begins and ends with this final “episode.” It doesn’t appear Mansoor will be taking the Juggernaut HT7 out on the road.
“This is now relegated to being a ‘studio only’ guitar,” he promises.