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Nela

What style music am I using it for and what tone wood is it matched to??? Who's the builder? What body size and scale legnth??Really, I think this is impossible to answer because every tone wood has it's place.... Finger picking usually favors cedar and strumming goes with spruce... However there are always exceptions, even from one piece of cedar to another and the same for spruce and all it's subspecies.

Spruce for me since it more strum friendly.

whatever they build the best Martin guitars with.

Spruce SEEMS to be more strum-friendly to me also. Anyone want to weigh in?

I've got target lock on the cedar "sister" of my S6 and am curious.

Cedar VS Spruce is largely a matter of tone preference;

First off, whichever wood you select, a solid, pressure-tested top is highly recommended for best performance ... you'll be glad you spent the extra. A laminated top (and/or sides) will greatly reduce the tone, detail, and volume of the instrument. The glued layers of a laminated top increase its overall density, and it simply doesn't resonate as well.

I have two Cedar tops (LaPatrie "Concert", Norman ST40). Both have a soft, gentle tone, with lots of warmth but not as big on volume or low end. As someone has mentioned, Cedar lends itself well to finger-picking, which is why most classical guitars use it. My Larrivee D-03 on the other hand is a Sitka Spruce top, and has more volume with much more fullness of tone and low-end punch.

For durability, Cedar is indeed softer than Spruce so requires care, and because it's more porous it reacts quicker to humidity changes.

I sincerely hope some of this is useful.

Dont know that much about it, I just pick em up and strum,, if I like I buy or add to the "I WANT" list.

As with all guitars, the one I prefer is the one in my hands at any particular moment.