I also believe that good tone is somehow in the fingers. Some guys have it , some not. In this thread though I understood tone being the tone that a certain equipment can produce. To me my Marshall plus my OCD produces a certain creamy, bluesy tone, in the end it's "in my fingers" what I make out of it, but the ingredients are set.
"A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the business. But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free," - Corey Taylor (Slipknot)