Thanks all. I appreciate it.

A few months ago I was searching all over the internet (and I believe I even had a thread going here as well) for a nice vintage, small bodied Martin and having been to hell and back mentally in the quest (from zillions of dealers, E-Bay weasels, and even a few Japanese web sites - big vintage Martin market in Japan b.t.w.), the moment I decided to abandon the quest out of sheer frustration, "the guitar found me." I know Catpsaw had wanted to know how that quest had turned out, and in the end I picked up a lovely little 1947 Martin OOO-21 in really excellent shape and all original. I just had a set-up done on it last week, and it's really playing nice now. "Mudcat Rag" is my first semi-finished recording using this particular instrument and when I listen to it, I don't so much listen to the music, as I do to the tone -such is the guitar nerd in me :-) and while I'm extremely biased, I think it's a very sweet sounding guitar. Can't beat old, aged rosewood and adironack spruce for fingerpicking!