The hunt for a new guitar

I went looking for a new acoustic guitar.
There are thousands, but if you know what you want it is hard to find!
If you want to try before you buy then it is nearly impossible.

I had an old Eko Ranger6.
I wanted a new Dreadnought.
I wanted to choose it for its acoustic sound, but occasionally want to plug it in.
After a few discussions I accepted the advice to ignore pickups until I had chosen my guitar, then get a pickup installed.

Faced with the huge range I decided to reject cutaways, on the basis that the reduced body size would have a negative impact on the acoustic sound, and I just don't play up there.

Then I discovered 'nut width', string spacing. The nut is the bit of plastic or bone right at the top of the fingerboard.

A typical nylon-strung classical guitar has a nut-width of 51mm (2 inches).
Every electric guitar I have seen has a nut-width of 43mm (1 11/16 inches).
My Eko has a nut-width of 47mm.....
I like to finger-pick mostly ( I have a 12-string Yamaha strumming machine for big chords).
I tried a few guitars and found that finger-picking the narrow neck was challenging.
Then I discovered that almost every acousic guitar today has an electric guitar nut-width.

So I decided to look for guitars with wider neck and got very frustrated with the number of guitar web-sites that do not state the nut-width, even the makers.

Bottom line:
I bought a Crafter DLX3000/SK from Modern Music in Truro http://www.modernmusic.co.uk/