Fine Tuned Instruments

Welcome to Fine Tuned Instruments, the home of Gene Baker and his "b3" custom instruments. Where extreme quality craftsmanship and tone are king! Fine Tuned Instruments began shipping instruments in early 2006 on a very limited basis being a small shop.

Now into 2009 we have expanded our line of instruments and continue to look into other models our customers demand or we feel are missing in the market. Using twists on vintage friendly themes while adding flair and modern advancements where I feel required. I consider them to be tools for tone purists.

Now with Online store and customer direct service. Contact Gene directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

New Artists Coming ASAP to shows near you is none other than MOTOGRATER http://www.motograter.net/

with Jimbo James Barton at the engineering helm and support of Kill It Clothing Motograter shall POUND the payment all across America. I will post a few pics of 2 very custom rides co-sponsored by Lollar pickups and ToneProsJohn Jones. hardware and some spell artwork by non other than

Others checking out our fiddles... You can catch "Another Animal" http://www.anotheranimalrocks.com on tour and see Tony Richards tearing it up on his Phoenix 7. The bandincludes members of Godsmack so expect some heavy hitting. "Dr Know” of "Bad Brains" http://www.badbrains.com has also been tracking with a hot-rodded Phoenix tremolo model with a Ghost Midi system built in. Other custom rides out on the road include Stone Temple Pilots - Dean DeLeo http://www.stonetemplepilots.com and Fair To Midland's - Cliff Cambell http://www.fairtomidland.com.

Luca Zanini

Nuclear Physicist by day, guitar designer/player by night, hailing from Switzerland with the debut of his “Villano” model. 25.5 scale, 2 custom designed humbucker’s solid slug staggered mag poles for some very convincing single coil tones and a very well rounded humbucker too with a variety of switching options hiding under the chassis. This is the very 1st prototype 100% built here at the FTI factory and soon to be made available to the public. The prototype is just now starting to make its rounds and meeting as many people as it can for some first impression feedback. http://www.zaniniguitars.com/ or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Other models starting to hit the streets include a model dubbed the Telstar being jointly built between us here at FTI and Chad Underwood exclusiviely for Destroy All Guitars and on the road with Maroon 5. Chad does some amazing work capturing that well worn vintage vibe with design input directly from Cliff Cultreri himself along with Matte Henderson. Check out the huge review Premier Guitar wrote on the models as well as Cliff has always been the direct link to Fine Tuned Instruments and a huge part of our sales force and customer service www.destroyallguitars.com or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Some very cool news designer Frank LaMara of Musical Products Group (also Egnater amplifiers), Frank has designed a set neck model guitar that has been getting heavily used and abused by Ty Tabor of Kings X on their current tour supporting their new release XV, look for some photos of him and Franks new design in the photo section of our website under Artist photos. Also check out Franks new Tone Bra, it will take the ice pick out of those Vintage 30's and fatten your tone quickly and inexpensively. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information on LA GUitars, ToneBra and many other musical designs FRank has up his sleeve. See Frank,s NAMM 09 models in the OEM Photo Gallery.

Current 6 pack of guitars in progress slated to Franks growing list, get ahold of a Frank to secure your LA model.

Video I have been uploading a lot of old memorabilia video footage I stumbled across in the archives so if you go to http://www.myspace.com/meangene31 and you can check out some rather raw footage capturing an inside glimpse the original factory.