Headless Guitar with raised flames for Mikkey Dee of Motorhead

Just finished this guitar for Motorheads Drummer - Perfect job again by Ace at "Ace of Sprays" (http://aceofsprays.co.uk/) - he did raised flames in fiberglass, then a really nice candy apple flame in yellow to red.

EVH Style Strat.

Just finished this build - nice guitar.

New Bass

Now taking orders on this Bass - can you guess who its for?

Wall of Lemmy Guitars

Just finishing of a batch of Lemmy Guitars - also check out the Bass.

We are still taking orders for the guitar - check out this link for more information: Lemmy Guitar

Building an Uli Jon Roth Sky Guitar with 36 frets

Been wanting to do one of these for a while now - its an Uli Jon Roth Sky style Guitar.
36 frets on a Maple cap neck, 6 strings for now - will do a 7 or 8 string version when I am happy with the build. I am not scalloping the fretboard as I am not a fan of that style - the electronics will be an issue as these is a humbucker placed under the fretboard on the upper register (I am thinking of 3 Bare Knuckle Warpigs to much derision by my colleagues!). I am also going to include a Strat style bridge with piezo's in the saddles. Sails of Charon anyone...

Motorhead and Slash at Download 2010

Check out the video of Phil playing his TC Ellis Guitars Series 2 with Slash:

Motorhead in Portugal using a TC Ellis Guitar

Lemmy Inspired Guitar

Lemmy of Motorhead inspired guitar - we just finished this guitar for a customer - we are very proud of this truly unique guitar.

Specifications:

Individually Serial Numbered for the production of 50

Premium Mahogany Body with 5 Piece Maple Neck

Width at Nut: 42mm

Width at 12th Fret: 52mm

Scale Length: Strat

Premium Hand Made Binding

Premium Ebony Fretboards

Star Inlays in Mother of Pearl

Bare Knuckle War Pig Pickups (1V + 1T)

CTS Pots, Sprague Orange drop Capacitors, hand wired

Premium Hardware

Bone Nut

Certificate of Authenticity

Hard Case

Pro Setup by both myself and Tim Butcher (Lemmys tech for the past 30 years)

More pix and info at this link: http://www.tcellisguitars.com/lemmy.html

Custom Relic Service

We are now offering custom relic services from £75. If you are looking to give your guitar that vintage vibe you can always have it Relic'd. Most people agree that the sound, the look, the feel, the history is what attract us to vintage guitars. How many people have the £5,000 to £50,000+ to buy an original vintage guitar?

We have developed many different techniques to transform your standard guitar into a piece of history - or at least make it look like one.

Click on this link for more info:

http://www.tcellisguitars.com/relicservice.html

Custom Les Paul Style Guitar

Just finishing up this custom build for a Customer in Greece:

• Left Handed Series 2 Les Paul style
• Mahogany Body & slim Set Neck
• Custom Greek motif fretboard inlays
• Custom Greek God "Athena" inlay in Abalone on headstock
• Flame Maple top in translucent green
• Bare Knuckle Riff Raffs in Zebra Style
• Coil tap and out-of-phase via 2 push pull pots
• Orange drop caps, Fully Shielded

Lemmy Inspired Guitar March Update

We have just finished another production prototype of the Lemmy inspired guitar. This one is built to the same scale length as a traditional Fender Strat (The first prototype was based on a Les Paul scale length). We are also hand profiling the necks in accordance to each new owners desired specs.

Custom Paint by Ace of Sprays

We just got this back from Ace at Ace of Sprays http://aceofsprays.co.uk/ - it started life as a PRS style guitar which has flame maple top that was just laying around the workshop. Ace did a great paint job on it utilising the existing flame in the maple going under a faux granite finish. Here are a few pictures showing his great work on this guitar:

Horton Heat Guitar

Just finished this 335 style guitar for the Rev. Horton Heat - check out this link for more info:

http://www.reverendhortonheat.com/

We have done this guitar as a gift to the Rev - we dont have any endorsement deals etc. Horton Heat supported Motorhead in the USA last year and this was a way of saying thank you for the hospitality.

The guitar itself is a 335 style mahogany body / neck with a maple top - finished in black - ebony fretboard with no inlays, Les Paul style hardware with the 3 way switch on the upper horn. We fitted a nice set of Bare Knuckle Mississippi Queen Humbucker sized P-90's - CTS Pots and Orange drop caps.

 

Phil Campbell of Motorhead playing a Lemmy Inspired Guitar

We are working on a limited run of Lemmy Inspired Guitars - Phil Campbell of Motorhead picked up a new guitar from us last week and tried out the design prototype for the guitar:



Specifications:

Individually Serial Numbered for the production of 50
Premium Mahogany Body with 5 Piece Maple Neck
Width at Nut: 42
Width at 12th Fret: 52mm
Scale Length: 626mm
Exclusive body shape with hand carved "Oak leaf" relief
Premium Hand Made Binding
Premium Ebony Fretboards
Star Inlays in Mother of Pearl
Bare Knuckle War Pig Pickups (1V + 1T)
CTS Pots, Sprague Orange drop Capacitors, hand wired
Premium Hardware
Bone Nut
Certificate of Authenticity
Hard Case
Pro Setup

Price: £850 + V.A.T. If the guitar is going to any non-European Union Country then its £850 and you will be responsible for your own import taxes etc.

Phil Campbell playing his new Strat built by TC Ellis Guitars

Phil Campbell of Motorhead finally got to the shop to pick up the Strat we just built for him:



The guitar is as follows:

Mahogany Body finished in translucent white
1 Piece Flame Maple Neck with Spade inlays and "Wanker" at the 12th fret
Callham Vintage S Bridge - blocked off (no trem)
EMG H/S/S pickup configuration modded to 18 volts
Custom made Gold Mirror Pickguard and back plate
Custom plated gold / nickel vintage split post tuners

If you are interested in a similar build we can produce this instrument for approx. £750

Mantis 2 with EMG's and Schaller Hannes

Just finished this build:

TC Ellis Guitars Mantis 2 in Mahogany with 1" Flame Maple Cap - faux Binding
Tree of Life in Mother of Pearl
Schaller Hannes Bridge
Schaller Tuners
EMG Zakk Wylde Set

Lemmy inspired Guitar

Just finished this prototype for a Lemmy inspired guitar.

Click here for more information


This is a limited run of 50 instruments priced at £850 + V.A.T. The first 15 have sold out - I am now taking deposits of £250 each for the remaining 35.

Triumph Motorbike Strat

Tim Butcher just finished his custom painted Strat - Its based on the same paint job he has on his Motorhead Triumph - all paintwork was done by http://www.aceofsprays.co.uk/

Here are a few pictures: