201 South Highland Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15206 www.pittsburghbuildersguild.com | [email protected] 724-514-0647 Premier Builders Guild Premier Builders Guild NAMM Booths 2882 & 2883 Premier Builders Guild (PBG) makes it easier than ever before to experience boutique, masterbuilt guitars and amps. PBG is a dream team of elite master builders supported by proven management, marketing, production and dealer service teams. Each master builder makes specific models or their entire brand available exclusively through PBG. All PBG instruments are built in the USA. Bob Gjika: Gjika Amplification PBG enables buyers to choose from an exciting portfolio of boutique, master built guitars and amps – without the uncertainty, long wait times and lack of customer support commonly associated with boutique instruments. Take the genius that went into the single ended amp made famous by Shawn Lane on Powers of Ten – and add thirty years of amp design expertise. Contact Jimmy Lovinggood to learn more about PBG and to find the perfect boutique, masterbuilt instrument for you. Early in his career, Bob created an amp line to capture the sounds he loved by Jimmy Lovinggood, VP Sales Clapton, Hendrix and others. Yet unlike other builders, Bob focused on the sound [email protected] of those recordings - not the sound of the raw amps used on the records. 714-514-0647 The result? The large, 8-power tube equipped single ended amp embraced by www.premierbuildersguild.com Shawn Lane on Powers of Ten. It dwarfed other amps in tone and harmonics - and it’s the inspiration for Bob’s new 30-watt single ended amp to be offered by PBG. The new amp sacrifices none of the thick harmonic content of its big brother while offering the same crushing tone at a more reasonable volume. It is being produced by PBG Amp Master Builder Mark Bartel at the Tone King workshop in Baltimore. Mark and Bob are in contact at every stage of the build. Stay tuned. Premier Builders Guild Mark Bartel: Tone King Amplifiers Gene Baker: b3 Guitars He lives inside the box. Master builder Mark Bartel has focused on WaWatteer,r, Wood,ood, Metal, Fire.F Each model in the b3 Guitar line from master nothing but the design, construction and perfection of the vacuum tube builder GeneGene Baker is aimed at a specific tonal space. All are straight- Metropolitan 1x12 Combo amplifier for over thirty years. Fire Guitar aheadh d toolsl forf seriousi musicians. Mark tests and retests countless wood, component and configuration A Gibson® Custom Shop master builder at age 25, Gene later moved to combinations until he hears sound worthy of the name Tone King. Off Fender® Custom Shop, where he was named master builder and then the shelf parts? Not here. Mark works with USA-based manufacturers to senior master builder. While at Fender®, Gene collaborated with Robben develop custom components that meet his demanding requirements. Ford on three models and also created original “Gene Baker” pieces. Mark’s first vacuum tube amp model, the Imperial, is a trusted small Gene eventually left Fender® in order to apply his vast expertise to venue standard. His Metropolitan model features Phase-4 power control, his own nameplate. He heads the PBG workshop in Arroyo Grande, a breakthrough in vacuum tube amp technology that ensures consistent California, where he designs and builds b3 Guitars as well as models tone from 0.1W to 40W, clean or gained up, in big venues or small. designed by PBG master builders Dennis Fano, Roger Giffin, Johan Mark and PBG recently introduced the Metropolitan Head, in response to Gustavsson, Saul Koll and Jason Z. Schroeder. Gene shreds regularly, Imperial 1x12 Combo Metropolitan 2x12 Cabinet Metropolitan Head Metal-XS Guitar Water Guitar Wood Guitar numerous requests from dealers and customers. with his Mean Gene Band. Dennis Fano: Fano Guitars Bill Krinard: Two-Rock Amplification VintaVintagege taken forforward.ward That’s the Alt de Facto guitar line from master “My philosophy is to make the amp sound like the guitar. If you plug in a 1956 builderbuilder DennisDennis Fano.Fano. Strat and then a 1961 Strat, I want you to hear and feel the difference. The struggle to accomplish that is my bliss.” Imagine an alternate realityr where the great American luthiers of the 19501950’s’s work together under one roof, as a collective. That’s the vision Design visionary Bill Krinard co-founded Two-Rock in 1999 based on his thatthat inspiresinspires DennisDennis anda his Alt de Facto boutique guitars. It’s a world passionate commitment to create the best-sounding guitar amps available. During wherewhere agedaged nickelnickel hardware,har time-tested woods, a distressed lacquer that first year Carlos Santana bought Two Rock number 5, and Bill spent the Alt de Facto RB6 finish and classic aesthetics are fused with modern features including afternoon tweaking the amp for Carlos. a compound radius fingerboard, TonePros hardware, ToneStyler tone controls and custom wound Fralin pickups. The result? Proprietary Two-Rock has since emerged as a boutique amp innovation leader. Bill is distressed guitars with unsurpassed playability and tone. responsible for circuit and application innovations that have moved the entire category forward. He has created signature Two-Rock models for John Mayer, Eric Alternate reality realized – and embraced by leading artists including Gales and Steve Kimock. And he’s seen the brand embraced by additional artists Chris Carrabba, Popa Chubby, Jared Scharff, James Valentine and Pete including Matt Schofield, Volker Strifler, Terry Haggerty Mark Karan and many Alt de Facto SP6 Yorn. Alt de Facto guitars are built to exact specifications by PBG Guitar more. Master Builder Gene Baker at the PBG USA Workshop. Gene and Dennis are in close contact at every stage of the build. Working with great artists has helped Bill to develop the unique Two Rock voice; a voice you can hear throughout the Two-Rock line. Alt de Facto JM6 Alt de Facto MG6 Alt de Facto PX6 Alt de Facto JM6 Alt de Facto: It’s a look, feel and a state of mind that you’ll never want to leave. Dennis Fano: Fano Guitars Bill Krinard: Two-Rock Amplification VintageVintage taken forforward.ward That’s the Alt de Facto guitar line from master “My philosophy is to make the amp sound like the guitar. If you plug in a 1956 builderbuilder DennisDennis Fano.Fano. Strat and then a 1961 Strat, I want you to hear and feel the difference. The struggle to accomplish that is my bliss.” Imagine an alternate realityr where the great American luthiers of the 19501950’s’s work together under one roof, as a collective. That’s the vision Design visionary Bill Krinard co-founded Two-Rock in 1999 based on his thatthat inspiresinspires DennisDennis anda his Alt de Facto boutique guitars. It’s a world passionate commitment to create the best-sounding guitar amps available. During wherewhere agedaged nickelnickel hardware,har time-tested woods, a distressed lacquer that first year Carlos Santana bought Two Rock number 5, and Bill spent the Alt de Facto RB6 finish and classic aesthetics are fused with modern features including afternoon tweaking the amp for Carlos. a compound radius fingerboard, TonePros hardware, ToneStyler tone controls and custom wound Fralin pickups. The result? Proprietary Two-Rock has since emerged as a boutique amp innovation leader. Bill is distressed guitars with unsurpassed playability and tone. responsible for circuit and application innovations that have moved the entire category forward. He has created signature Two-Rock models for John Mayer, Eric Alternate reality realized – and embraced by leading artists including Gales and Steve Kimock. And he’s seen the brand embraced by additional artists Chris Carrabba, Popa Chubby, Jared Scharff, James Valentine and Pete including Matt Schofield, Volker Strifler, Terry Haggerty Mark Karan and many Alt de Facto SP6 Yorn. Alt de Facto guitars are built to exact specifications by PBG Guitar more. Master Builder Gene Baker at the PBG USA Workshop. Gene and Dennis are in close contact at every stage of the build. Working with great artists has helped Bill to develop the unique Two Rock voice; a voice you can hear throughout the Two-Rock line. Alt de Facto JM6 Alt de Facto MG6 Alt de Facto PX6 Alt de Facto JM6 Alt de Facto: It’s a look, feel and a state of mind that you’ll never want to leave. Mark Bartel: Tone King Amplifiers Gene Baker: b3 Guitars He lives inside the box. Master builder Mark Bartel has focused on WaWatteer,r, Wood,ood, Metal, Fire.F Each model in the b3 Guitar line from master nothing but the design, construction and perfection of the vacuum tube builder GeneGene Baker is aimed at a specific tonal space. All are straight- Metropolitan 1x12 Combo amplifier for over thirty years. Fire Guitar aheadh d toolsl forf seriousi musicians. Mark tests and retests countless wood, component and configuration A Gibson® Custom Shop master builder at age 25, Gene later moved to combinations until he hears sound worthy of the name Tone King. Off Fender® Custom Shop, where he was named master builder and then the shelf parts? Not here. Mark works with USA-based manufacturers to senior master builder. While at Fender®, Gene collaborated with Robben develop custom components that meet his demanding requirements. Ford on three models and also created original “Gene Baker” pieces. Mark’s first vacuum tube amp model, the Imperial, is a trusted small Gene eventually left Fender® in order to apply his vast expertise to venue standard. His Metropolitan model features Phase-4 power control, his own nameplate. He heads the PBG workshop in Arroyo Grande, a breakthrough in vacuum tube amp technology that ensures consistent California, where he designs and builds b3 Guitars as well as models tone from 0.1W to 40W, clean or gained up, in big venues or small.