Gene Baker / Fine Tuned Instruments B3

The B3 comes in five flavors:

Earth (from $4200) - Flat top model - This element embodies the natural raw essence of a simplistic nature of design, there's something to be said about natural talent and humble beauty.

Fire (from $5200) - Carved top solid body model - This element adds a dimension character, giving life to the carve top with a heart on fire.

Wood (from $6100) - 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 - 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 - Neck thru models - This element adds strength and stability as a single unit allowing the instrument's resonation to travel unbridled throughout the center of the instrument.

Models can have a combination of elements such as an Earth/Wood model would be a flat top with a hollow body or 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...

typical B3 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:

5 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
6 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 and Skyway 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