I thank you for your interest in my work. 

CelinderWORKS is a design house, a guitar workshop, and a sound studio. Here - together with 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 building instruments since the early 80s - and as a profession since 1987. My aim is to build as much in-house as possible, trying to rely only on a short list of external suppliers of materials and work processes.

My philosophy in guitar making is all about the music that can be derived from the actual instrument. I invest huge amounts of energy into my work, in order to achieve my goals.

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

Working with woods and acoustics the goal posts continually seem to move and I stay humble in the knowledge that working in the realm of deriving music out of woods and resonant materials every instrument coming off my bench is still different from the next one. Thus my quest 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...