Excellent !!
Choosing a band name or a band name is tricky if you are not just naming after yourself, which is almost the easy way out.
Once chosen you sort of have to live with it and all the connotations that it conjures up, both positive or negative depending upon who is reading the name.
Tim has also been very clever/playful with the model names.
I never fail to be amazed or amused by them.
The one that usually takes explaining is the Mule as Warren Haynes isn't so well known over here and many folks don't know his role in the Allman Brother's band
I went through the whole choosing a name thing way back - it was 1988 to be fair.
I kind of decided on a whim that it was what I wanted and then got to think about it for 9 years before going full time with the company.
I remember telling someone once when quizzed about the name(and they were taking the piss out of it to be fair) :
"I was always told that the guitar was in fact a penis extension, and thought that if I had to chose to have anything on the end of my knob I'd want it to be a little pussy."
On a more serious note it was the fact that I wanted to use cats eyes as a 12th fret inlay and also felt that cats have certain unique qualities like being graceful and stealth-like . Cats have the ability to be cosy and affectionate one minute and become an agile and fearless hunters the next, and I liked that concept.
I felt that the name evokes certain images and attributes that would be easily conjured up, and provided a lot of opportunity for play on words for marketing and advertising.
