Guitar for Dave Grohl and online article about my workshop

Just finishing up building a guitar for Dave Grohl. Motorhead recently did a tour supporting the Foo Fighters in the U.S.A. and as a way of saying thank you we built him an exact replica of Phil Campbells TC Ellis Les Paul style guitar (he is a big Motorhead fan). The guitar should ship to him next week so I will post any pics I may get of him with the guitar. The guitar is one of my Series 2 Les Paul style loaded with Bare Knuckle Warpigs. Thanks very much to Tim Butcher and Lemmy for all the help with this one.

The Wales on Sunday newspaper just ran an article about my workshop - you can check it out online at this link: TC Ellis Guitars 

Mention on Motorheads new Album

Many thanks to Motorhead and Tim Butcher for getting a mention on the new Motorhead album:

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

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

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.

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.

Phil Campbells new Strat Build

I have been working on the neck again for the new Stratocaster I am building for Phil Campbell of Motorhead - here are a few pics (click on them for a bigger version):

Headstock with decal & Logo - Lots of Nitro Clear - hand flatted between coats etc:


Back of the neck - high quality Flame Maple


12th Fret Inlay:


"Ace" Fret Markers

Phil Campbells Strat Build

I have been building Phil Campbell of Motorhead a Strat for the past few weeks - its just about done. Today I applied the headstock decals and took a quick picture (click on it to see it bigger)



I will post some pictures and more information later this week once it's complete. I can build this same Strat for £750 - set up exactly as this one.

Lemmy Bass - Update & Pictures

Here are a few pictures of the Bass we are building for Lemmy - Once Lemmy approves we will begin production:

Lemmy Bass & Phil Campbell Strat Update Nov. 2 2009

Here are a few new pictures of Lemmys Bass (Notice the intricate body binding is now on) This Bass is subject to Lemmy's approval:



Here are a few pictures of a Strat build we are doing for Phillip Campbell of Motorhead - he likes his Series 2 so much he wants a matching Strat style guitar - Ash body in translucnt white, S/S/H, Flame Maple neck with premium rosewood fretboard (check out the upside down "Spade" symbols for the fret markers in Abalone and "Wanker" in Abalone at the 12th fret)

Lemmy Bass Update Oct 31 2009

Here are a few more pictures showing the construction of Lemmys new Bass:





Once the initial prototype has been approved by Lemmy, we will begin a very limited production run.

Lemmy's Bass and Guilfest 2009

It has been a very busy couple of weeks here - last week Tim Butcher brought in Lemmys Bass for a quick "tune up" - We stripped the hardware and re-plated it in 24 Carat gold, rebuilt the tuners, installed a 3 way micro switch for the electronics, fret dress and cleaned her up.

Last Friday I was invited up to Guilfest 2009 with Motorhead to see my Series 2 guitar in action - Phil used it for the opening and for Power during the gig - great time meeting all the crew and spending some time with Lemmy. Thanks to Phillip for keeping me company for the trip up - took me a few days to get over it....

Here are a few pictures of the bass before we did the work:

Here is Daniel my son playing the Bass when we had it finished:

Phil Campbell of Motorhead gets a Series 2

Its been quite a while since my last post - I hve been really busy setting up the new workshop and finishing the Series 2 Guitars. I have been very fortunate to be intorduced to Tim Butcher who has been a Guitar Tech for Motorhead for the last 30 years (Lemmys personal Tech). Tim is helping out in the Workshop, setting up Guitars and teaching me a few tricks he has learned over the years, along with some great tales of life on the road with Motorhead!

Yesterday we had a visit from Phil Campbell, Motorheads Guitarist - he loved the guitars and took a nice red quilted Series 2 for himself - great experience to watch him play one of my guitars!

The Series 2 are now ready so please contact me if you are interested - I have many colours to choose from etc - for more information please click here