What to buy?

[ES335]

ive GASsed...... should arrive friday......... its not the carolina though - but they are the all-solid ones for £239 (spruce/rosewood)

Which one did you get?

The Carolina's look nice, all solid for that money is crazy!

[guitargeek62]

yup, i reckon one would probably have been great for me but i "sold-out" and bought a taylor 214, been after a taylor for years - they were the first company that made me notice that all acoustics dont look the same

[Lewy]

no no not at all.........everywhere......if a guitar has a 'wider than normal finger board' or its marketed as a 'fingerpickers guitar' - but why ? what the difference does it make FFS........seriously, think about it .........you fret a chord you fret a chord ? you dont fret it diffrerently just cos you're finger picking..........do you ? do you ? *puzzled look* (god I hate this shite forum s/w) I dont.....never have...........I know Im an odd-ball.......I learnt to fingerpick before I learnt any chords or to strumm........

Good question...maybe it's because it's more important that all the strings ring clearly and aren't muted (unless you want them to be) and thats easier to do if there's more space between them? Not sure a wider spacing is great for country style picking though because some of the chord shapes are adapted to fret two strings with a single finger - that's hard enough with standard spacing....

[Deluxe_65]

you should check out the Guild GAD range, very impressive

[bertie]

Good question...maybe it's because it's more important that all the strings ring clearly and aren't muted (unless you want them to be) and thats easier to do if there's more space between them? ....

only if your fingers are that of hairy arsed tarmac-er.....and not finely honed precision intruments like mine

[Jamieh]

no no not at all.........everywhere......if a guitar has a 'wider than normal finger board' or its marketed as a 'fingerpickers guitar' - but why ? what the difference does it make FFS........seriously, think about it .........you fret a chord you fret a chord ? you dont fret it diffrerently just cos you're finger picking..........do you ? do you ? *puzzled look* (god I hate this shite forum s/w) I dont.....never have...........I know Im an odd-ball.......I learnt to fingerpick before I learnt any chords or to strumm........

To me it just feels more natural, but more at the right hand than the left... I see what you are saying it makes no difference to the left hand fretting chords if the fingerboard is a few mm wider, but it makes a difference to picking accuracy when picking out individual strings if the strings are wider apart at the bridge end.... I appreciate this has nothing to do width nut width though........ perhaps its psycological.... or perhaps it's just me.... but it really does feel more natural to pick individual strings out of the string spacing all the way up the fretboard is a tad wider than usual.