NAME:
H. Joshua Gaunt
ORIGINALLY FROM:
Born in Fort Wayne, IN... but moved around alot growing up.
HOW YOU GOT STARTED IN GUITAR REPAIR:
Went to Full Sail and got an AS in Show Production and Touring. Went to work @ S.I.R in San Francisco as a backline tech, then moved back to Chicago and learned from 3CGS in Guitar Repair
HOW / WHEN YOU CAME TO WORK FOR 3CGS / BOBS:
Looking for a job in the Chi Reader, and managed to convince CE to hire me... Feb. 2003
FREQUENT REPAIRS / SPECIALTY:
Headstock Reglue with Cosmo, Top Cracks, Inlays, Touchups, refrets, and alot of customizations, routing and cobbling.
BEFORE YOU BECAME A TECH, WHAT OTHER WORK DID YOU DO:
Mostly retail in my teens, then alot of stage hand work, and backline tech work.
ANY BANDS:
Nope, prefer repairing guitars to playing
RECOMMENDED LISTENING:
Sublime, Flogging Molly, Calexico, Slightly Stoopid, Boozoo Bajou, Thievery Corporation, De La Soul, Earatik Statik, Marley and the Wailers (studio one)...
FAVORITE FIREWATER:
Makers on the rocks, and a Highlife is all I crave
FAVORITE GUITAR:
Early 60's Gibson SG JR/ Pre Gibson Tobias Basic 5-St. Bass
FAVORITE HOBBIE:
Rock Climbing
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