Best guitar for fingerstyle with no nails

[Woolbury]

I would try a guitar with a cedar top if you haven't, as a couple people have mentioned here. Cedar fires easier than a spruce top, make for a sweeter sounding guitar, more suited to a softer playing style. If your banging out loud bluegrass w a pick, you probably don't want cedar, but softer Mississippi John Hurt type of finger style playing w/o nails is where I think they sound the best.

[Rosewood99]

Are there really guitars that excel with bare fingers and others with nails?...or is a good fingerstyle guitar a good fingerstyle guitar period?

[Bob from Brooklyn]

You don't get the articulation with bare fingers as you would with a pick which is why you might tend to a brighter guitar for that application. I'm in the same boat.

[Rosewood99]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

You don't get the articulation with bare fingers as you would with a pick which is why you might tend to a brighter guitar for that application. I'm in the same boat.

The OP was mentioning fingerstyle with no nails vs. with nails. I don't think a pick was in the mix but I could be mistaken.

[Bob from Brooklyn]

I understand. I equate 'with nails' roughly similar to using a pick.

[Rosewood99]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

I understand. I equate 'with nails' roughly similar to using a pick.

Not me. Unless you have extremely long nails, you are hitting the strings with some nail and some flesh. Very different sound than just a pick. My take is a good fingerstyle guitar is good whether you have some nails or not. But I'm open to persuasion.