Third Coast Guitar Repair - Chicago Guitar Repair Shop http://www.thirdcoastguitar.com Repairing Guitars All Across the Nation Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:04:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Brad Boughton http://www.thirdcoastguitar.com/techs/brad-boughton/ http://www.thirdcoastguitar.com/techs/brad-boughton/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:07:06 +0000 chris http://www.thirdcoastguitar.com/?p=575

Hey man, I'm Brad

Brad Boughton

Quick interview with Brad Boughton

Q: What do you like?
A: Amps & Girls.  I really like amps. Q: Cool, anything else?
A: Nope.  ’Nuff said.


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Name:
Benny Monson

From:
Minnesota
How I got started:
Built a 40 lb banjo in my spare bedroom
How I came to work for 3CGS:
Came in for a switch ring one day and they wouldn’t let me leave
Specialty:
Anything plunky or twangy
Other Work:
Carpenter, Kinkos Dink, T-shirt folder, Lawn Mower Jockey, etc. etc.
Bands:
Rusty Pipes, Tyranny Belles, Girth Wind & Fire, No Ice Cream for Jesus
Listening:
Anything EXCEPT Steely Dan
Favorite Guitar:
Tallgrass #3
Food:
Chocolate and Cheese
Alcohol:
Rubbing
Links:
www.beedogs.com

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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
LINKS:
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