The neck heel of the Wiens Auditorium guitar
The Wiens Auditorium guitar. Indian Rosewood with Engelmann top
The first WIens concert 12-string. This one got scribbled on by WIllie Nelson later on.
!2-string peghead.
The first Wiens Parlor guitar. Mahogany with rosewood binding. 1999
Cross-grain laminated soundhole reinforcement was what I was into back then
This one goes to 11.
One of my favorite shots of the mahogany Parlor
The one & only Wiens 5-string fretless acoustic bass.1999
Nice angled Bass shot.
5-string fretless acoustic bass down the fingerboard. .
Fretless 5-string bass
Ebony tail graft. Highlander pickup jack.
5 string bass. ebony Peghead veneer with a bubinga logo.
Ebony strap-pins serve as bridge pins. The string set was pieced together from stand up bass strings.
Ebony binding frames the cutaway on the Fretless Bass.
This shot shows the 4 distinct sizes of Wiens guitars. 1999
Wiens Fretless 5-string bass,Concert 12-string, Rosewood Auditorium, and mahogany Parlor guitar. 1999
One of my first 3 dreadnought guitars. This is #2. 1997
The back of #2
Sitka top of #2 darkening nicely
Fine Herringbone on the darkening Sitka Spruce Soundboard of #2
Indian Rosewood back & sides with zipper backstrip
I didn’t do peghead logos on my first 3 guitars
5-string fretless banjo. Built for a local friend. 1997
My first attempt at MOP inlay on the Fretless banjo.
Got a bit carried away. Ebony Rim-stick with ivory nameplate.
Tried my hand at carving the heel also. 1997
My first Commissioned instrument. A neck-through body 5-string bass guitar. 1996
the 5 string back. tortoise cover plate.