I'm taking the stage these days with a pair of  Mahogany Folk with L.R. Baggs  Duet II pickup.  I'm liking this Artist Series guitar quite a bit... The smaller body may not look like much but lemme tell ya... that Duet II can fill any room I've had to play so far.  They sound wonderful acoustic as well.

These are currently being dressed in Martin Light gauge strings...  I've tried a couple of other brands though the years, and I just keep coming back to Martin strings...

The newest addition  has been a Seagull 20th Anniversary guitar...  Cedar Top... LR Baggs I-Beam Pick up...  The first high gloss finish guitar I've owned in about 16 years or so, and I gotta admit, I LOVE it... You won't see it at gigs with me, but if you go to Oddenough.com and send in an email asking for the CD,  An Oddly Distracting Christmas, you'll get to hear it on a couple of tracks there...

My  S6+  has finally been retired to the guitar stand beside the bookshelf in the living room. I've had this guitar for about 15 years or so and she's certainly earned the rest. She's cracked under the pick guard, her frets are worn nearly flat up to the 5th or 7th fret.  Add to that the fact that there's no pick up in her anymore, she'll be my 'around the house' or Open G guitar...

My  S6+CW  has the L.R. Baggs  Acoustic Timbre pick up in it.  It was a fine stage guitar until the intonation went out due to improper humidification.  Currently it's living in Chatham where Mike is using it to pick up chicks  :-)

A Boss ME-10 Effects Peddle... really very cool... It's actually way too much effects peddle for an acoustic geek like me, but I'm having fun with it so far...  Especially since I got my Authentic Copy of an Original Les Paul Knock Off (more info soon...)

I have an original parts 1970 voice that I'm trying to remove the smoke finish from. I keep it properly humidified with a combination of  Guinness  and  Tullamore Dew .

I tune with a new Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner.  A great piece of tuner for loud rooms and wild bar gigs.  But I prefer to use my Sabine AX-2000  stick-on tuner in acoustic settings.

My  Bodhran was handcrafted in Ireland by Tipperary Music and is kept properly humidified by what ever it is that passes for water in Windsor. It may not be the best of drums, and the Guinness logo on is admittedly on the cheesy side, but for the $ at the Ottawa Folklore Centre it has served the purpose.. I mic it using an Optimus Ultra-Miniature Tie Clip Mic from Radio Shack.  This is a picture of where I have it placed.  Here.

Although I am having trouble finding a lot of places to put them, when I do, The Pub Prop  has proven itself invaluable... beats lugging around a big 3 pronged guitar stand... Like I said, the only problem is finding places where I gig to clamp it... If you want one go to Briarmill and order one... tell them that "Clinton Hammond from The Mudcat Cafe" sent ya and see if they don't give ya a good deal... They are damn good folks!

    New development... At a pub gig gig a few nights ago, I discovered that my 2 Pub Props hold my 2 Mahogany Folk Seagulls in 2 sides of a barstool just perfectly!  And I then have the barstool for drinks, crying towels, what-have you....  So these things just keep getting better and better!

 I have also invented (??? o.k... more like cobbled together ???) a THING that makes my Pub Props even more useful... Have a look and offer feedback in my Guestbook or use my Contact Page

Here's another little thing that I'm debating about... A bunch of people have recommended it to me... I've contacted LaSiDo to find out their take on it... JLD Bridge System
LaSiDo had very little to say except that installing this would void my already expired warranty... They've never tried it...  And I've kinda decided not to monkey with my guitars this drastically!

In Guitar Resources all I have right now is a wicked cool DADGAD Tuning Chord chart in pdf format...  It's got more info on in that it really needs... a lot of the chords are real finger breakers that completely undo any benefit one would get from playing in an open tuning... But with a little patience, even the novice DADGADer can find the chords that work on this chart....  I hope to one day make a good collection of chord charts for other alternate tunings.  Stay tuned eh!

DADGAD Info... Ya wanna get started in DADGAD, get yourself a copy of Stan Rogers songbook "Songs From Fogarty's Cove"...  Not only is it a very well written, well bound and immensely entertaining book... It's also a GREAT place to start trying new tunings...   Also stay tuned here for information regarding 2 soon to be, no doubt very useful song books... one from Stephen Fearing, and one from Garnet Rogers... Man I can't wait!  :-)

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