Conner Baldacci always knew he wanted to work with his hands. It was just a matter of figuring out what to do with them.
Growing up in Gillette, he took a few different classes in school like woodworking and the metal shop but wasn’t sure those were the right fit. It was only after Chase Cassidy at Haggerty’s Musicworks talked to him about schools focused on building guitars that he felt a distinct pull.
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