Inventions/Designs

Advanced Combat Axe -- a lightweight but incredibly strong combat axe, optionally executed in a Titanium lattice, with a user-replaceable steel edge, achieving a 50% weight savings. Also available in a camp axe form factor. Filed 4/22/2026 as application 19/654,811 with USPTO.

Advanced Anvil -- a skeletonized Titanium anvil with a user-replaceable steel strike face, achieving a 50% weight savings.

Advanced Combat Pistol / Colt Delta Elite Mark II -- an upgraded 10mm 1911-style pistol for civilian and military use with all new high performance parts, conversion from Series 80 to Series 70, and a Trijicon RMR HD optic. Available as a total conversion package for a customer-supplied bare frame for $5,250 that includes all components (customer must wait on-site for up to 8 hours during the process until we get our Federal Firearms License). 🇺🇸 Proudly 100% Made in USA, including all component parts! Once we have the FFL, we can improve the offering.

Close-In Personal Defense Weapon (CIPDW) - a Titanium handgun for the military that fires .410 shotgun shells and is undetectable by any metal detector.

Super Shotgun -- a double-barreled dual-mode (pump or semi-automatic) shotgun with dual triggers and 12+2 magazine capacity (optional detachable magazine for military use), inspired by the video game Quake 2.

Spectrum Warrior -- a mobile data terminal for a civilian vehicle for use in private investigations that may involve nation state capabilities.

Toddler tool set -- an ultra quality wooden heirloom tool set and tool box for toddlers to learn, Made in USA of domestic materials, inspired by the 1950s-era tool set that I still have.

Rællar™ -- new 24K gold coating composite, now available to other instrument makers by popular demand. 2025, filed as application 19/328,228 with USPTO.

Spectre™ -- an innovative Combat Identification System (CIS) system using hyperspectral imaging and long-range computer vision with encrypted, high error-correcting QR codes. Can be embedded in digital camouflage, as well. Ongoing.

Dial-a-Bang™ -- a safe and effective electronic dazzler as an alternative to pyrotechnic flashbang grenades, with user-selectable output and capacitance. Ongoing.

Praetor™ -- RF-attenuating encapsulated ceramic composite armor. Ongoing.

Instruments

Custom tribute guitars dedicated to Prince, David Bowie, and Edward Van Halen, exactly matching the sound and style of these departed artists. Select from models below or inquire about a custom build (lead time is estimated at nine to twelve months, all-in).

Artists


Tony Visconti - Blackstar 002

Vivienne Wilder - Blackstar 001

Ian Docherty - Purple Rain

Model Lineup


Blackstar (with art) - invitation-only pending proper licensing.
1 bass, 2 guitars in progress (ETA 9/2026).
  • Licensed Precision Bass® or Stratocaster® form factor (bass and guitar both available).
  • Maple body with real 24K gold coating composite in a glossy, shimmering finish, patent pending.
  • Durable enamel album art and star fragment/letter fret markers.
  • Les Claypool Signature EMG pickups (bass). EMG 57 and S pickups with Strat Presence Control (guitar).
  • Three-band parametric equalizer with frequency selector on the mid, and user-configurable frequency ranges (bass only).
  • "18V mod" for maximum firepower and clarity.
  • All gold Schaller® hardware, with gold strings from Optima®.
  • Made in USA.

Blackstar (plain) - $15,000
Out of stock, custom orders only.
  • Copyrighted art delete for compliance purposes, with plain star fret markers.
  • Otherwise, identical to flagship model, including real 24K gold leaf painstakingly adhered in two layers, followed by manually applied self-leveling polyurethane.
  • The most outrageous ultra-glam Bowie tribute instrument ever built.
  • Made in USA.
"The tone controls are extremely parametrically varied, giving the sound from the bass a far more varied [tone] than any other bass I've owned. I played a little with the knobs and couldn't believe what I was hearing." --Tony Visconti, 2026.

Bass has a unique and highly adjustable, powerful tone. Guitar simulates Mick Ronson's Les Paul in a Strat style, with the ability to "dial in" the tone, plus a boost switch for added power on solos.

Purple Rain Mark II - $7,500
Out of stock, custom orders only.
  • Licensed Stratocaster® form factor.
  • Maple body with Prince specification EMG pickups.
  • Painted body and neck in custom-mixed purplish blue metallic, with stenciled Love Symbol fret markers and headstock logo.
  • All gold Schaller® hardware, with gold strings from Optima®.
  • Authentic Minneapolis/NPG® sound, tone-matched to the navy blue "Cloud" guitar seen at Paisley Park.
  • Made in USA.


The Dark Crystal - $15,000
Prototype in progress (ETA 12/2026).
  • Base is a fine carbon fiber cello from a leading manufacturer.
  • Finished in a proprietary translucent purplish crystalline coating, in tribute to Jim Henson's visionary film, The Dark Crystal.
  • Made in USA.
All instruments are professional touring instruments intended for professional use, and are not intended as garage queens or museum pieces.
Van Halen tribute coming early 2027.


Vivienne Wilder with Blackstar 001, March 2025. Ian Docherty with the Purple Rain guitarIan Docherty with the Purple Rain guitar in a Dwayne Gretzky show
© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission. Ian Docherty playing Purple Rain with July Talk
© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission.

🇺🇸 All guitars are Made in USA with a domestic parts content of 80% (body, neck, paint, pickups, frets), unless otherwise indicated. 10% parts content made in Germany (tremolo, knobs, and tuners), 10% other (mounting rings and plates, accessories, and certain paint components). "Diamonds and Pearls" guitar may optionally include imported diamonds.

Information Systems

The Tower -- an Advanced Information System devoted to promoting faith.

Custom web application programming in the LAMP stack, with 25 years of experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and PHP, plus recent innovative work in Javascript, HTML5, and CSS.

Innovative X11 programming in C with our in-house software engineer and yours truly.

JD Underground: a fully featured and extremely highly performant noSQL web discussion board system, including a shard-based page accelerator resulting in explosive increases in performance.

Slash: advanced law firm CRM/billing/practice management system, running on General Dynamics PitBull OS. Features the novel Lattice user interface that I wrote from scratch in HTML5/CSS/Javascript. Runs as a blindingly fast in-browser window manager, with a novel technique for focus detection and window raising.

Infinity Stone: a proposed system for the tracking and interception of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGVs) in the midcourse-to-terminal phase using a fusion of Bayesian probability and Artificial Intelligence, featuring an opportunistic automatic queuing algorithm linking local computation with remote supercomputing assets.

Spirit II Valkyrie: upgraded Pegasus configuration with dual CPU's, dual Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU's, and a substantial broadcast capability.

Spirit II Pegasus: portable heavy duty computer workstation based on the AMD Threadripper Pro CPU with one or more Nvidia A6000 GPU's and dual 8K displays, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows 11 Pro. Optional eight-drive RAID 5 with Seagate 2X14 dual-actuator enterprise hard drives (90 TB total capacity). Optional A100 or H100 GPU "backpack" system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for supercomputing and the Riva A.I. suite, or optional PitBull backpack. Military-grade Pelican rackmount rolling case. Ideal for motion picture production and mobile engineering. $60,000 and up.

Rogue Mariner: a proposed maritime private security vessel with next-generation capabilities.