The Site

Soon the site going to be going thru yet another overhaul as we open up the Store and all the cool ideas we can bring to the table to keep you in touch with us the builders and the artists that span the globe touting our tools.

Factory Direct Sales Guitars Ready to ship

New to the site is a photo gallery section of guitars In Stock and ready to deliver, these are BRAND NEW guitars and also seen on some of our partner sites. Any guitars seen in our photo gallery are here in stock in the shop where they were born. If there's something you see please dont hesitate to contact me directly at FTI  See the Model section and check out the Available Ready to Ship photo gallery. Contact myself Gene Baker @  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or Cliff Cultreri to secure a guitar. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   As I mentioned soon simple methods of payment to safe gaurd you the customer and your confidence in the service we provide.

Current list of available guitars ready to ship are: These prices are a little lower than if the model was custom ordered. This saves you money and helps you for immediate delivery. We ship 2nd Day Air (included in sales price) anywhere in the 48 States, so you dont pay any extra fees, insures a safe and speedy ride to you in time for the gig. Shipping elsewhere price difference collected only.

Metal/Phoenix 5 #0 185 3TSB - $3495 

Fire/Bombardier #0 173 Trans Red - $3595

Fire/Bombardier #0 177 Tobacco Burst $3595

Fire #0 124 Honey Burst $4695

Payments can be sent directly to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it via PayPal, a Shopping cart coming soon until then contact Cliff This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or myself This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for a sales confirmation.

Custom Orders are also welcome via This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, 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 TonePros hardware and some spell artwork by non other than John Jones. 

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/

Every Thursday

Just Mean Gene takes over Fin's Resturant from 5pm till 8pm, located at 25 W. Grand Ave, Grover Beach, CA. 93433. Basically right on the beach. Casual hang, Happy Hour food and drinks, all ages welcome, dog friendly, guest players always welcome to pick your own or lend a vocal.

Finally its Friday

Gene appeared on a local Charter Cable TV Show which airs for the first time May 1st in the local San Luis Obispo, CA area. If you happen to be on Charter Cable look up "Finally its Friday" and you may catch Gene doing a solo acoustic vocal session in a tiny hot sweaty TV studio singing his heart out. The show re-airs often so you may catch it a few times thru the year. Stay tuned for YouTube footage to be posted of the show very soon.

Summer Bash 09

Currently slated for end of August and date to be nailed down ASAP. The Summer Bash will consist of a Open House here at Fine Tuned Instruments where all can tour the shop and meet the crew as well as wrap their hands around one of our necks and choke out some chords and toss down some munchies and cold brews and usually a jam tends to break out.

This will be a Friday Open House and we plan the Bash to be on Saturday most likely at a local lake or park as an Open Jam BBQ (bring a side dish and favorite beverage), possible fishing, boating, camping, etc... We will list a variety of possible hotels for those coming from outside the area. More details and or bands to be slated to the event and we will post all news as it happens. Other manufactures welcome to the event and Aracom Amps is expected to make a showing so we'll have a nice selction of amps for people to check out. Please get on the newsletter mailing list to stay up to date on all events and happenings around the shop.

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.

LA Guitars

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 spam bots, 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.

Destroy All Guitars

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 spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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 spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it