Thank you for your interest in my work. 

CelinderWORKS is a design house, a guitar workshop, and a sound studio. Here - together with input from my partners and their companies - I design, build, voice and test my guitars, my basses, and my pickups. 

I take great pride in putting out only world class work. Slowly, meticulously - and by hand. I have been doing this since the early 80s - and building instruments as a profession since 1987. My aim is to build as much in-house as possible in order to tailor each parameter to what suits the particular instrument best.

My philosophy in guitar making is all about the music that can be derived from the actual instrument, and I invest huge amounts of energy and time in focusing on achieving my goal of three.

Only when all these three parameters - feel/ playability - sound/ tonal response - balance/ aesthetics meet, do I feel close to achieving my goal. 

Working in the realm of deriving music from tonewoods and resonant materials I realise my goal posts continually seem to be moving, but I stay humble in the knowledge that every instrument coming off my bench is different from the next. 

Thus the quest for the most amazing instrument continues...

The Basses

CELINDER Fine Handmade Bass Guitars has been my main focus since 1987. Having built instruments for a whole bunch of my personal heroes (some of which actually are the reason I picked up the instrument back in the late 70's) I have been very fortunate to cater to some of the absolute best bassists on this planet.

The Guitars

Chris Celinder Guitars is my offering to the discerning guitarist. As with some of my bass models, my guitars are mainly rooted in tradition, but I deconstruct the tradition and seek to give my take on how the designs - from, let's say, the hand of a brilliant industrial designer/radio technician - could benefit from a luthier's standpoint and insight.

The Pickups

Celinder Pickups is an effort to bring my own sound to my own instruments. I approach the challenge like I do my other work. Slowly, meticulously, stubbornly. Using old-school proven techniques and handwork of a bygone era. It takes forever, but in the end the results speak for themselves. Let your ears decide...