Skervesen Raptor 6 Guitar, Black Burst

Music Store Live is very proud to offer up this Skervesen Raptor guitar with a beautifully wild poplar burl top in a brooding trans black burst finish.

This Skervesen Raptor is very appropriately named. The guitar is aggressive and super fast to play. Blazing lead licks up and down the fretboard are a real breeze while complicated chord shapes are still easy to get every note to ring out perfectly. Let's not kid ourselves here, this is a shredder's axe through and through! Sure, it can handle a variety of playing styles, but it's begging to hit the front end of your amp hard and scorch the big stage.

The Bare Knuckle Juggernaut set is a heavy hitter, for sure! It handles heavy saturation with easy and has an aggressive tone that remains tight and articulate. The swamp ash body and beautiful birdseye figured maple fretboard on this one will combine for a brighter sound with some nice spank to it. The neck is slim, thin, and lightning fast. The fretwork is immaculate and allows for extreme bends without fretting out, two-handed tapping without exhausting your fingers, lightning-fast shredding up and down the neck, and chugging rhythms. The heel is contoured for easy access to those upper frets so you can really get as high up on the neck as you need to.

A simple control layout and gorgeous aesthetics round out this incredible sounding guitar. Whether you're lighting it up on the big stage or just jamming with friends, this guitar will impress both visually and with its killer tone. This one also comes with a heavy-duty flight case that is virtually bullet-proof and lets you take your Skervesen with you anywhere you want to go, even if you have to fly.

The Raptor 6 is the most popular model in the Skervesen line - a  versatile instrument of classic design.

This guitar features a swamp ash body with 5A poplar burl top, Jescar stainless frets, Bare Knuckle pickups, and ebony fingerboard. A heavy-duty flight case is included so you can keep your guitar protected from scratches and dings when you're not playing it. It's also covered by a 2-year warranty!

Bare Knuckle Pickups: The Juggernaut

Whether it's crushing rhythm tones, fluid solo tone or massive clean soundscapes that you want to create, the Juggernaut humbuckers deliver on every level. The Juggernaut is Periphery guitarist Misha Mansoor’s signature humbucker, and the pickup has been designed with Misha’s progressive playing style in mind. Along with a massive sound, the pickup has an optional distinctive 'bulb' design cover etch, which adds a further dimension to an already unique pickup.

"The Bare Knuckle Juggernaut encapsulates everything that I look for in a pickup in a ground breaking way. I can finally have the tightness and attack of a ceramic with the dynamics and musical nature of an Alnico. I can proudly call the Bare Knuckle 'Juggernaut' my signature pickup set." Misha Mansoor.

The Juggernaut humbucker is designed with symmetrically hand-wound twin screw coils and has a unique combination of massive Alnico V and ceramic VIII flankers for its engine in the bridge and a custom size Alnico V in the neck. Bass response is big and focused with lots of weight in the mids for the ultimate in definition through complex extended chord voicings. High end is rich and vocal with all of the articulation and dynamic control that Misha demands for his progressive playing style.

"The pickups are full and musical at all times even though they are super tight and can turn very aggressive if you pick hard." Misha Mansoor.

Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, tested, set up, and cleaned all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.