Guitars

Ian Docherty with the Purple Rain guitar© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission. © Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission.

Custom tribute guitars dedicated to Prince, David Bowie, and Edward Van Halen, exactly matching the sound and style of these departed artists. $7,000 and up. Options and models:

1. Blackstar

Special edition David Bowie tribute bass in a Precision Bass form factor, featuring an ultra-glam look with double 24K gold gilding (two layers) by a professional gilder, Les Claypool signature EMG pickups with three-way equalizer, gold-plated hardware and strings, and painted-on star-shaped fret markers, with diamond side markers. $10,000.

2. Purple Rain Mark II

Warmoth officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple body
Musikraft officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple neck
Original Floyd Rose tremolo system (made in Germany)
EMG 85 and SA active pickups (Prince specification)
Schaller tuning machines and knobs
Love Symbol fret marker inlays, officially licensed from the Prince Estate
Gold-look frets
Custom mixed purplish blue metallic paint (body and neck) with Purple Rain logo

$7,000.00 with 50% down, 50% upon readiness for shipment.

3. Little Red Corvette

Warmoth officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple body
Musikraft officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple neck
Original Floyd Rose tremolo system (made in Germany)
EMG 85 and SA active pickups (Prince specification)
Schaller tuning machines
Love Symbol fret marker inlays, officially licensed from the Prince Estate
Gold-look frets
Custom mixed candy apple red metallic paint (body and neck) with Chevrolet Corvette logo

$7,000.00 with 50% down, 50% upon readiness for shipment.

4. Diamonds and Pearls

Warmoth officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple body
Musikraft officially licensed by Fender Stratocaster maple neck
Original Floyd Rose tremolo system (made in Germany)
EMG 85 and SA active pickups (Prince specification)
Schaller tuning machines
Love Symbol fret marker inlays, officially licensed from the Prince Estate; or, actual diamonds as fret markers (add $3,000.00)
Gold-look frets
Custom mixed metallic paint in any color of your choice (body and neck) with logo of your specification

$7,000.00 with 50% down, 50% upon readiness for shipment (cost increases for actual diamond fret markers).

Eddie Van Halen models coming soon.

🇺🇸 All guitars are Made in USA with a domestic parts content of 85% (body, neck, paint, pickups, frets, strings), unless otherwise indicated. 10% parts content made in Germany (tremolo, knobs, and tuners), 5% other (mounting rings and plates, accessories, and certain minor paint components). "Diamonds and Pearls" guitar may optionally include imported diamonds.

Advanced Information Systems

Spirit II Valkyrie: upgraded Pegasus configuration with dual CPU's, dual Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Generation 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.


Portable broadcast studio.

Mosaic: 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.

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.

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