Gene Baker / Fine Tuned Instruments b3 "FIRE" MODEL

The b3 comes in four flavors:

Fire (from $3795) - Carved top solid body model - This element adds a dimensional character, giving life to the carve top with a heart on fire.

Wood (from $3995) - Chambered to Hollow body models - This element adds natural rich tones, attributed to the acoustical properties with the introduction of air, allowing the woods' tone to be showcased, giving each a unique voice of its own.

Water (from $4595) - Carved top/carved back hollow models - This element adds motion and grace, giving birth to the added flowing shapes and contours of the instrument with the woods' interacting between the front and rear woods, adding sound waves into the tonal picture.

Metal (from $2995) - Neck thru models - This element adds strength and stability as a single unit allowing the instrument's resonance to travel unbridled throughout the center of the instrument.

Models can have a combination of elements such as a Fire/Metal hybrid being a Carve top neck thru. Elements feed and have a cause and effect unto each other. With these parameters new models will naturally be born as new instruments come to life. Not all combinations have been fully developed based upon the element family tree so please stay Fine Tuned for more info...

The b3 FIRE MODEL is Gene's workhorse masterpiece carved top model, the one that made him famous and solidified his moniker of "Mean Gene." This is also one of the most popular guitars here at DestroyAllGuitars and has come to define us almost as much as it defines Gene.

typical b3 FIRE Model specs might read as follows:

- Solid body Mahogany set neck with carved maple top
- Creme bound body and fretboard
- RF control layout 2 vol, 2 tone, 3 way pup selector, mini coil tap switch
- 2 Seymour humbuckers, 59 bridge & Pearly Gates neck with covers
- TonePros double locking bridge and tailpiece
- Nickel hardware
- Grover tuners
- Mahogany neck
- Rosewood fretboard
- 17 degree tilt back headstock
- 12 inch radius neck
- 22 frets
- 24.625 scale length
- 6105 fretwire
- 1.660 nut width - 2.220 heel width
- Buzz Feiten Tuning System and Buzz Feiten bone logo nut
- RF neck shape .800 to .980 C shape
- Diamond block inlays (abalone and gold pearl mix)
- Ebony headstock overlay with inlaid b3 logo
- Straight string pull headstock
- SNAGG tracking device
- G&G Hardshell case

Available options:

control layout options:
a.. RF - 2 vol 2 tone, 3 way, mini coil tap
b.. Standard - 2 vol, 1 tone with push pull coil tap, 3 way switch
c.. Tremolo - 2 vol, 1 tone with push pull coil tap, 3 way switch (arranged for no trem arm interference)
d.. 5 way - 1 vol, 2 tone, 5 way blade switch
e.. 59 - 2 vol, 2 tone, 3 way, push pull coil tap on neck tone
neck shapes:
a.. small C .820 to .920,
b.. standard C .830 to .980,
c.. 59 small .870 to .950,
d.. 59 large .870 to .980,
e.. 58 .890 to .980,
f.. RF C .800 to .980

Additional Options:

- 6105 or 6155 fretwire
- Various colors and bursts
- 24.625 or 25 inch scale length
- Flat top junior model
- Chambered, semi hollow or hollow body routes
- Dot, Trapezoid or Diamond Block inlays
- Abalone, Gold Pearl and White Pearl inlay shell materials
- Wrap-around intonateable tail, bridge with stop tailpiece, Floyd Rose Tremolo sysyems (12 degree headstock on all non locking tremolo models)
- Creme, White, multiple WBWBW, Tortoise or Natural Maple binding options (no bound headstocks)
- Ebony or Indian Rosewood fretboards
- Sperzel, Grover or TonePros locking Kluson tuners
- Grover, Sperzel and Waverly non locking tuners
- Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio pickups, P90's or humbuckers

Click here to download the Gene Baker "Spec Your Own Guitar" custom order sheet (in XLS format).