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Jim Stewart (Vero Beach, FL) is K5STJ

10 years in the Navy - Lt(jg) to Cdr,including a year as surgeon for the 6th (Mediterranean) Fleet and 1950-51 service with the Marines in Korea. Member of the Chosin Few. Our hospital in Hagaru-ri had several doctors but I was the only surgeon, while we were surrounded and outnumbered by Chinese (a...

Guitar has been sold & check is on its way to the Forum (from McCall)

Somehow got posted twice!!
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In U S Navy (as a surgeon) for 10 years (1948-58), Naval Hospitals in Boston & Norfolk, and a year as surgeon for the Mediterranean Fleet on board the heavy cruiser USS Salem. The Navy lent me to the Marines for the Korean war. I made the Inchon landing, was surrounded by the Chinese at the Chos...

Photos are now available by email.

Email didn't arrive yet, but phone number is (772)778-7575.
I need to clarify one matter. I do not plan to bring the guitar to St Louis unless I am delivering it to the buyer. (I will be too busy at the convention). My thought was simply to try to save the buyer a few bucks.

Posting this on behalf of a senior citizen friend who is not on line. Original owner of this beautiful Rosewood D-10 8&4 (S/N 1992-D)with standard Emmons setup. He obviously took great care of it, played in a small band in the early years, put it away more than 10 years ago. Recently I persuaded...

Thanks to all who replied and made the problem rather simple. Thanks also to Jon Light for the referral to the Emmons site which had an excellent tutorial, including a description of my specific problem. After studying the suggestions and the tutorial, I made two simple adjustments. First, moved the...

I have worked on the underside of a lot of guitars, but never previously on the push-pull. Trying to help a fellow local player who apparently has never tuned his D-10 properly & has played for years with pedal changes off the mark!! His 1975 model is in perfect condition. I was able to tune eve...