Crossroads of passion
and experience
The Badlands Guitar Company® is the brainchild of The Tone King and Luka Skalabrin, two friends and hard rock guitar fanatics with a passion for the sights, sounds, and gear of '80s hard rock. They formed Badlands Guitar Company® to disrupt the reissue guitar market, which they believe takes too many shortcuts when it comes to delivering a true '80s hard rock guitar experience.
A salute to the Sunset Strip
Building from their knowledge of the designs, features, and specifications that elevate the typical electric guitar into versatile, responsive, rowdy-but-sometimes-refined instrument that '80s hard rock music demands, TTK and Luka devised the limited-run, U.S.-made GX1, both as a tribute to the heady days of the Sunset Strip scene and the players who demand the best in quality and value.