For a very long time, I was absolutely convinced that dreadnought-sized guitars were the size God intended man to use when playing guitar. And (quite arguably) they are, for bluegrass, rhythm and flat-picking music. Then I discovered fingerpicking and first worked it all out on dreddies.

One day I had an epiphony in a vintage shop and for a lark picked up and OM sized guitar (a Collings) and played my then arsenal of fingerpicking tunes on it. It was like the diffence between driving a car and sitting on a bench style front seat (Plymouth Reliant comes to mind) and sitting in the plush leather and full powered bucket seat of an Infinity J-40.

For fingerpicking, I'm now firmly in the OOO camp. I prefer the slightly shorter neck scale of the OOO (24.9") over the 25.4" inch scale of the OM - eventhough the body size of the OM and OOO are identical.

It all comes down to comfort...and the style(s) of music you want to play.