Can't play two at once. I'd rather have the one "nicer" one

I'm just not a fan of collecting guitar shaped objects, so quantity is not valuable to me. I would get one guitar.

Two. I got my Larrivee i love new this year for just under $1400.00. I’m sure i could find a very nice guitar to join it for the remaining $1600. Used would be fine with me. I would like another USA Breedlove or a 00015SM.

It depends on where you stand as an acoustic guitar owner.

My under 1k$CAD Seagull Performer CW QIT, Alvarez AP66ESB and Eastman AC122ce
have nothing to be shy besides
my over 2k$CAD Taylors 322 and 412, Martins OOO-18 (2014) and OODB, Guild F-30 Aragon or Gibson L-OO TV.

So, I would not buy any other entry level acoustic but my eyes would stick on a Collings OM T.

I'd try to find a mid 60s D 18. or hope to luck out on a D 18GE.

i would put the money towards a Gibson SJ-200

I think this would be my strategy. If I were to order a guitar tomorrow it would be a Halcyon, which would run about $1,800 Canadian. Save the rest for other discretionary spending.

Buying two guitars at once doesn't make much sense for an amateur musician.

I'd use it for one nice guitar, probably an Iris or an Atkin (though I'd need to put some of my own money towards the Atkin as $3000 = €2528 and there's an Atkin Essential 000 A at Some Neck Guitars right now for €2999).

I would buy 2 solid wood guitars for $ 1500 each, a mahogany dread and a rosewood OM or MJ.

That's the way I would go !!

One could look at my sig you could guess what my inclination would be.

Taking the hypothetical as "the balance of the $3K not spent on a guitar or guitars goes away." And given the number of guitars I have now and like well enough, my actual answer to the non-actual deal being set out in the hypothetical is one $3000 guitar.

Probably a rosewood 00 or OM/000 with I guess a spruce top.* I don't care about untouched good looks or decoration, so it might be used or "player grade" instrument. I have a couple of spare hard cases for that size of guitar so there'd be another way I might try get my maximum money's worth out of the $3k allowed.

*I'd be interested in the sound of a cedar/rosewood guitar, but not a common combination.

I'd put that $3000 towards a Santa Cruz OM Grand 12-string which costs almost 3x that much.

$3K is about the cost of an Iris Guitars DF with sunburst and slothead. Sounds good to me.

I'd add some money and purchase a nylon string crossover guitar. I might just do this anyway without the $3,000.:)

It would be one (gently?) used Gibson SJ200, and I would play and sing all those beautiful Gregg Lake songs I love so much. Mr. Lake once said it was the only guitar that he would use and that mattered. I get it. Godspeed my friend.