Beginning in 1992, several of the Gauntlet body piercers were awarded the certification of Senior and Master Piercer. Many of these individuals went on to become influential in the body piercing community, training later generations of body piercers, owning their own stores and evolving the craft to suit the needs of their clients, maintaining sterility standards as well as jewelry trends. •
Elayne Angel – the first person certified as a Master Piercer. •
Michaela Grey – Director of the Gauntlet Piercing Seminars and later founder of the
Association of Professional Piercers. •
Dan Kopka – Trained many of the piercers who worked at the Gauntlet
New York City studio. •
Mark Seitchik – Long time piercer at the Gauntlet
San Francisco studio and later manager at the New York studio. • Paul King – Long time piercer at the Gauntlet in San Francisco and Los Angeles and later owner of Cold Steel America, a body piercing studio in San Francisco. •
Fakir Musafar – Introduced to Jim Ward by a mutual friend in the early 1970s, Fakir became heavily involved with Jim's fledgling company, Gauntlet. Fakir was integral to the content of
PFIQ, a magazine published by the Gauntlet. ==References==