Tim Wallis is the Inventor of all the Timara Custom Shop products.
He's an award winning Guitarist, Producer, Songwriter, TV and Radio Host / Program Director, Inventor and Entertainer.
1971: Played his 1st bar gig, at the age of 9
1973: Begins playing guitar with the family band.
1976: He was working 5 nights a week in the area bars. That year, at the age of 14, he bought a '47 Dodge Coupe at a rummage sale for $350 and, with no drivers license, drove himself to gigs ...... before the Police caught him.
1985: Tim with his Band Thin Ice won 1st place in IL and WI in the True Value Showdown and 2nd in the USA.
1989: Began his own line of B&G Stringbenders for the guitar. He named the Company Timara after his daughters Timika and Sara.
1991: Tim recorded for Warner Brothers in Nashville as a singer/songwriter.
1994: Won Songwriter of the Year from the ICMA.
1994: Hosted the WDZQ Radio Morning Show for 5 years and still played guitar in his band several nights a week.
1999: Tim launched two Internet Radio Stations, WKRP.FM and Steel Radio.
2002: Began writing, producing, directing and hosting the TV show Pickin on the Prairie. The show aired on the local WB Channel and Public Access. It featured musicians, spoof bits and interviews.
2010: At 47, Tim's still playing guitar and inventing / marketing his guitar inventions.
