he has a cutaway (horrible) taylor that he supposedly picked out from a dumpster (his words) but read: pawn shop (more likely). Got it setup and thats what he uses live now. His recordings were either done with that or with something even more horrible and thin sounding than taylors but i guess anything sounds better than taylors anyway so..
anyway, his tone is much more on the fingerpicking technique that lets out the organic part a bit more cause he doesnt use a pick, mic technique, and on the first record and first ep, as you may know: a tascam or fostex 4 track.