Husk

PHOTOS: Spearfish Husk™ 6-string guitar. Patented and patents-pending tremolo and Element™ component set precision machined from aircraft grade aluminum and stainless steel. Swamp ash body. Carbon fiber pickguard. Bare Knuckle custom pickups with 10-way switching.

Seeds of rebirth await within the husk. Grasp the sheath, draw the mettle.

PATENT US 12,499,857 B1

IMAGE: Utility patent US 12,499,857 B1 issued Dec. 16, 2025. Design patents include: D1075895, D1073786, D1075896, D1054481, D1101024, D1064055. Multiple additional patents pending. The broader objective is to bring the tremolo to global mass market, through IP acquisition-licensing, or manufacturing partnerships. Learn more about the Rick Toone™ tremolo system.

Green Sunset Skele

PHOTOS: Green Sunset Skele™ 6-string guitar. Carbon fiber, flame maple, swamp ash, aircraft grade birch ply. Patented and patents pending Rick Toone™ tremolo. Element™ neck machined from single billet aircraft aluminum.

Which Exit?

VIDEO: “Which Exit?” live studio improvisation. Chris Buono slots Wildcat ’67 guitar into tight crosstown traffic with snap and spank via noiseless custom single coil pickups designed by Steve Blucher (DiMarzio). Patented & patent pending Rick Toone™ tremolo. Watch his fingers. Then watch his feet on the pedalboard.

If you’ve ever lived in Jersey you’ll get it.

Turnpike
Parkway
Expressway
78
80
287
195
295

Bumpers locked tighter than NASCAR but turns in both directions. Don’t blink. Don’t brake.

Here’s a survival tip…

Draft a semi. Find a skilled pro and shadow him. He will run interference through traffic because he is higher than you, can see farther than you. And he stops much slower than you — so if things pile up you’ve got an offensive lineman.

How do you know he’s skilled?

Owner/operator with a clean truck. Consistently above the speed limit. When he passes he glues the driver side wheels to the left lane line and moves decisively, never lingering alongside another semi.

PHOTO: Killick shows how deep exit identity goes. After three decades in Athens, GA, he will always know the way home. (photo courtesy: Snorri)

Meat Computer

VIDEO: “Meat Computer” live studio improvisation. Chris Buono, Killick Hinds, Rick Toone, Adam Wilson, enjoying a moment of friendship and documenting the special creative empathy when human minds collaborate. (7.10.2025)

“Brilliant.
Like a guitar version of the German group Harmonia.”
(DavidH via YouTube)

Earth’s entire existence, the only form of autonomous decision making has been carbon-based. Every life form, every sentient organism, has always been carbon-based.

The ladybug (Hippodamia convergens) exploring my laptop screen, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) gathering acorns near my porch, the oak tree blowing in the remnants of Hurricane Melissa, the turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) also enjoying the winds in the blue October sky above, my dog curled peacefully on her bed in the next room — carbon-based.

I am carbon-based.
You are carbon-based.

Every extinct species was carbon-based.

Flora & fauna, together we carbon-based life forms create a complex system with all of us making decisions based on the simple will to survive. Because we seek to live, our patterns are predictable enough that each species finds a niche within this beautiful blue Darwinian organic recycling system slinging through space.

Will a silicon-based autonomous decision-maker value carbon-based life?