The Gladiator is the result of seeing the “Bones Guitar “ on the cover of a George Lynch Tab book . As soon as I saw it, I said to myself, "I Gotta have it". After doing much research I found out that only 25 were made, and at that time they were going for an average selling price of $2500.00. Esp would not make me one. BC Rich might have made me one for $ 5000.00, and it would take a year. My dealers said they could locate some of the original owners but to be prepared to pay $ 5000.00 and up, so I said "For 5 G's, I'll make my own!"

   I hired an artist, Alex Brochon, and we started exchanging ideas and drawings for about 3 months until we came up with the Gladiator! Originally the image was to be painted on the body but Alex is a master carver and sculptor also, so we decided to carve out the image on the face of the body.

   The icing on the cake is I got the greatest guitar player in the world, George Lynch , to autograph it at his show at the White Rabbit when he opened for Ywgvie Malteem in April of 2004.