Hofner Verythin Fretboard

The inlays on the Hofner had shrunk over its 50 year life so I had to drop fill with pigmented superglue. Once filled I will resurface and level the inlays- check back in a few days for the results.

Custom Jazzmaster Build

Custom Jazzmaster Build - 1 piece mahogany body with bookmatched flame/quilt maple cap. Danish oil finish (pic shows the body with 1st coat applied)

John Mayer Heavy Relic Strat - "The Black One"

I am just finishing up this custom build - its primarily based on John Mayer's "Black One" Stratocaster, with a few changes as requested by my customer. Solid Alder Body with heavy relicing exactly the same as the original except it wont cost you the $19,500 that the Fender Custom Shop replica's cost.

Specifications:
Bare Knuckle '63 Pickups (Sweet as the come!)
Bare Knuckle 280K CTS Pots
Fender USA Vintage Trem

Mantis II in Black and Gold

Just finished up this build for a customer - its one of my Mantis II in Black and Gold. Mahogany body and neck - flame maple cap in trans black. Tree of Life inlay in the fretboard. Set up with Bare Knuckle single coils in the neck and middle with a Gibson P94T in the bridge. Its wired like a Strat and it sounds and plays better than I could have expected.

Lemmy's Bass's in for a Service - check out the pictures

Here is our resident shredder Tom with Lemmys two main guitars: Will be working on them for the next few weeks - click here for more information.

Black Strat Heavy Relic

This started as a nearly new Mexican Strat - full relic to all hardware, neck, pickup covers, plastics etc

Just had to do the cigarette burn

David Gilmour Strat Conversion

Coversion from a regular Fender Strat to a replica of David Gilmours Black Strat. The sound from the pickup combo and switching is amazing - pure Gilmour tone as well as Hendrix / Stevie Ray.

Converted to the same specs as David Gilmours Black Strat. Reliced as per the original guitar - including the filled trem route, Callaham Vintage S bridge with 4" trem arm, Fender Custom Fat 50's in the neck, Fender Custom '69 in the middle, and a Seymour Duncan SSL-5 in the bridge - custom wiring as per Dave Gilmour (note the 2 way micro switch to give neck and bridge combo in position 1) 1 ply pickguard and vintage white covers and knobs. I made use of the excellent book 'The Black Strat' written by Phil Taylor - Dave Gilmours guitar tech.

These are pics of David Gilmours actual Black Strat:

Mention on Motorheads new Album

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

EVH Style Strat.

Just finished this build - nice guitar.

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 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.