Twenty-three-year GAL member Kjell Croce is a graduate of the Red Wing School in Minnesota. He worked for Ron Pinkham at Woodsound Studios in Maine for five years before moving to Michigan, where he has worked in the repair department at Elderly Instruments for thirteen years. He also builds guitars under his own name.
▪ bio current as of 2017
2017
AL#131 p.58
Kjell Croce
▪ Everybody has seen them; those cracks on the tops of old Martins that form just south of the soundhole when the pickguard shrinks. Croce shows us how to close and reinforce the crack, and then make a well-behaved modern pickguard.
2014
AL#117 p.57
Kjell Croce
▪ Kjell Croce reflects on all the glues he uses in repair and the specifics for choosing each one.