Where does Reverend Gadget get his name?

Greg "Gadget" Abbott, actually is a Minister. In 1986 he was Ordained, and, when requested, performs marriages and funerals for friends. The "Gadget" part is pretty self explanitory.

Artist, engineer, fabricator, keynote speaker, and recently, television personality - Gadget is a maker of things, solver of problems, front-runner in electric vehicles and alternative energy and in a very real sense a mad scientist and a renaissance man.

He makes stylish, fun, and functional modern furniture, streamlined architectural details, HOT science fiction movie props (like this prop for "Supernova"), and BIG public art. 

Recently, Gadget was the Keynote Speaker at the Electric West Convention at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Reverend Gadget's steel projects run the gamut from massive to delicate, are tucked out of sight in private residences, and living in plain sight in public spaces.

He has designed and fabricated art with purpose, structural elements for commercial spaces, created his own line of modern furniture with a piece in the Mutant Materials Show for the Museum of Modern Art (KRAB), and made movie props for some of the biggest movie Blockbusters (Spiderman, Castaway, Batman, etc).

Gadget's artistry and fondness for collaboration have also won him many commissions from artists working in large-scale public art (aka Big Metal Things or BMT's).

Daniel Martinez, commissioned to design a Metro-Rail station for L.A.'s El Segundo Green Line, presented Gadget with his "biggest" challenge: the engineering, fabrication, and installation of a thirty-foot steel hand launching a "paper" airplane, under which the MTA trains pass. It is the largest sculpture of a hand in the world, weighing in at 30,000 pounds, and had to be installed between high voltage wiring, on an overpass! It's amazing no one got killed...

Gadget has been welding since the age of 14 and works with steel, copper, aluminum, bronze, wood and ceramics and is considered L.A.'s top large-scale metalman for the past 27 years.

Gadget studied computer programming at UCLA, then industrial arts and art history, business and economics at SMC, engineering, and dance at Menlo College while performing in the dance troup Interchange.

After a brief stint as a butler of the finest degree, where he learned to be a gourmet cook and a conossieur of world-class Scotch, Gadget taught industrial design at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

He can be seen working his craft in episodes of Discovery Channel's "BIG!" and select episodes of "Monster House!", and "How to Monsterize Just About Anything."

He is currently working on a new television series, and is taking on select fabricating jobs and speaking engagements!