*cause you can never have too much.
Live Gear: the guitars
Several years ago, Tim took the first baby step toward controlling his urge to have fourteen of every guitar ever made: now he has only the following reasonable number of guitars, though he has still been forced to name each one so as to keep them apart in his increasingly cluttered mind:
Big Boris (photo) for the screaming scrotal-shredding sounds
Frankenstrat: an axe which started out as a Fender Strat, but a few
experiments, many stitches, and a lot of rewiring later, is now....er,
well...a Frankenstrat. 
It's got a new neck and EMG's for a very clean sound. John Carruthers, well-known LA luthier, also installed a Floyd Trem system
and a mid-range boost knob for fattening up solos.
While Frankenstrat is an example in restraint, Bride of Frankenstrat is the closest thing to a cyborg a guitar can come. Almost, all her parts are no longer original or havebeen modified in some Dr. Jekyll/Mrs. Hyde-ish way. She has the ability to sync certain pickups in or out of phase, play all three in series for a full shrieking kinda solo sound, etc. She's also wired for midiguitar, with a Roland GK-2A midi pickup which drives my Axon 100 (no internal sound board -- too many midi-guitarists complained about its lame sounds).
The Studio
Dr. Frankenstrat's Lab is a home studio built in half of the garage. The result is a 60 db drop in sound from inside to outside, so that even late at night, the good Dr. can forge ahead with his important work in the field of sampling his dogs without the hassle of nightly raids by the local police, sicced on him by irate and sleepless neighbors. It has been designed and set up with the Dos Gatos Recording Studio, the mothership studio, in mind. The good Dr. can record guitar solos down at the Lab and bring them on a CD in various formats to the mothership where it is seamlessly inserted into a song being recorded at the mothership.