Misha Mansoor

"The backstory on this guitar is that Ola made me #15 which i absolutely fell in love with the exception of one issue: Relative to the sound i was after, straight pickups made the low strings sound weird because of the fan on the frets leaving more space between the bridge and pole pieces on those strings.

Ola offered to rebuild the body for me to accommodate slanted pickups that would solve that issue. He contacted Tim at BKP who then designed and made the first angled Aftermath set, spec'd to the fan on the guitar. This maintained a relationship between the bridge and strings that was a lot more in-line with what my other guitars have.

I loved the sound and resonance of the original body, so i made sure Ola use the same woods and used woods of the same density to maintain the sound #15 had. In the process he ended up finding a top that was even more beautiful than the last one, so this guitar saw sonic and aesthetic improvements with the rebuild!

The thing that really struck me with #15 was its instant playability. The fan on the frets was so slight that you wouldn't notice it, but you would noticed the awesome stretches you can do on a 24 fret guitar with a 24.75 scale on the high side. That coupled with probably the lowest playable action i have ever seen on a 7 string guitar made it just a dream to play. If i would describe the feel of this instrument with a few words it would be "touch sensitive".

I recieved #23 when we played Wembley Arena on this tour with Dream Theater, and the first thing i noticed was that the feel of the guitar had not been compromised in the least. Even though i had Ola up the string gauges for me to my live ones (11-64), it still had this insanely low action that still managed to sustain notes without compromise, and that touch sensitive feel to it. The real test was just playing it live for the first time having been used to the feel of my other guitars. I adjusted to the guitar with no issues and managed to play the set feeling very comfortable on the guitar even though it is VERY different from my other guitars in quite a few ways.

As far as the tone goes, the guitar sounds HUGE and almost pissed off with attack. My Daemoness probably has the most attack out of my 7s and my Jackson is the fullest sounding. My impression is that this fits very nicely in the middle. Fuller sounding than my Daemoness, and yet similar in attack qualities. Chords ring out so vibrantly on the guitar, and it stays in tune magnificently well, so i can make the most out of big ringy chords.

The only aspect of the guitar that took some getting used to was the way a headless guitar feels as you are moving about on stage. This is a very lightweight guitar, and since the neck itself has a lot less weight to it because of the headless design, the guitar will feel a little different in your hands as you headbang or move around with it, but this only took a few live songs for me to get fully used to.

So in the end, #23 ended up being a great success, and this will likely remain one of my main 7s for live use because of how quickly i got attached to its feel and sound.

I want to thank Tim Mills and Ola Strandberg for all the hard work they put into making this guitar a reality and getting it ready in time for this tour!"

– Misha Mansoor on the Strandberg #23

During an interview with Guitar Edge Magazine, at 1:26 Misha describes his Blackmachine B2 with "bare knuckle cold sweat pickups."

Misha has a huge collection of guitars that he is adding to quite often. Here, we see he has received a customized Aristides guitar model. Like with just about all of his guitars, he has loaded them with Bare Knuckle Juggernaut pickups. The full gallery of pictures were shared here on Facebook.

This Blackmachine was built by Doug, the owner, for himself from the best woods he could find. He actually sold it to MIsha and Misha as said it is one of his favorite guitars.

In this post Misha shows off his dunable R2 guitar. Misha states that he wanted t get his hands on a firebird style guitar for years. He states that he never realy got along with any gibson models. he put a carbon fiber pick guard, and a bearknuckle ragnorock set in the guitar. the pickguard helps reduce some of the weight

In this studio footage, Misha was seen using a EBMM JP7 7-string guitar.

Misha can also be seen playing this guitar 2 minutes into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFoDIDEdMzw&t=120s

When asked on Ask.fm "What do you think about Skervesen guitars?" "I absolutely love my Raptor 7. Gorgeous guitar, very unique feel and sounds great!"

In this video used as a source, Misha plays his Skervesen Raptor.

Misha talks about this guitar from 5 minutes and 12 seconds onwards in the "DunlopTV : Misha Mansoor (Periphery)" video, and also posted this thread on metalguitarist.org about the instrument.

At 2:46, Misha says "the original design I described, they followed to a T, but it became a platypus of sorts...I worked with mike shannon and told him what shape I wanted and he carved it out right on the spot."

Misha used his Mayones on The League of Extraordinary Djentelmen Tour.

Used in the first studio update for Juggernaut:Alpha/Omega at 0:32.

For some of Periphery's music, Misha requires an 8 string. He uses his jackson juggernaut 8 string. this guitar is an 8 string version of his Jackson Juggernaut signature guitars

For namm 2021 jackson released a signature so cal for misha. This was based the a custom so cal that jackson made for him. It is fitted with misha’s signaure Bareknuckle ragnorock humbucker as well as well as a pair of Bareknuckle trilogy single coils

In this photo, Jackson is seen playing a completely custom Jackson, straight out of Jackson's Custom Shop, "The world’s longest-operating custom shop, turning out world-class custom guitars ever since Grover Jackson first affixed his name to a headstock in 1980".

In this video from Oct. '14 about Periphery's Rig Misha have a crush on his orange guitar: "This is made out of material called Arium... This guitar was build in the Netherlands... by a bunch of crazy 'netherlandians'... It's a really really cool guitar made by 'Aristides'. This is the 070 model."

TotalGuitar posted this episode of "Me and My Guitar" featuring Periphery's Misha Mansoor with his Jackson Juggernaut HT6 Signature Guitar.

In this rig rundown for Premier Guitar Misha explains his Jackson custom strat-type guitar. He explains that he had been on a strat kick, and wanted Jackson to make him a strat-type guitar. Misha wanted this gutar as he settles into his "dad rock" phase. This guitar was reliced by the Fender Custome Shop. The guitar is equiped with an uncovered version of his signature Bareknuckle Ragnorok humbuker in the bridge, and two custom-wound Bareknuckle single coils in the middle and neck position.

THis guitar is a custom 7 string version of Misha's signature Jackson guitar. as opposed to his normal sig, this guitar is equiped with a floyd rose. He had this guitar made because, he needed a guitar with a floyd for certain songs in the periphery set. This is mainly used in icarus lives, and motor mouth.

IN this post Misha shows off his fender custom shop tele. This guitar in a reliced finish. he purchased this guitar from music zoo

Misha sent his RG2228 for refinish to one of the guys on this forum. After the second round of paint visible on page 5, the guitar is a match with this one seen in the Periphery II studio updates video at timestamp 13:47, albeit with replacement white pickup covers: https://youtu.be/8qsFAYNjWQ4?si=ocpNsP7WFThS-y-g&t=827

Misha uses the Armada to dial in his presets for the TC Electronic 2290 plug-in.

This guitar was sold off by Misha when his official Reverb shop went live in 2022. (https://reverb.com/item/58769110-teuffel-tesla-6-string-owned-by-misha-mansoor?show_sold=true)

This guitar saw use in the studio on layers for Periphery III, Periphery IV and the Bulb solo album

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In this video, Mark is seen playing on Misha’s Teuffel Birdfish. The riff he plays in the video eventually became the intro for the song “It’s Only Smiles” from Periphery’s 2019 album Hail Stan.

This guitar was sold off by Misha when his official Reverb shop went live in 2022.

In this video from Jackson, Misha Mansoor discusses and demonstrates his signature Juggernaut 7-string hardtail guitar.