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@zman – I ran into a similar problem last night while working on fingerstyle. I had taken my Taylor 416 to play at church service and was working on Freight Train afterwards. The first 2 measures are a C chord and I kept muting the D string off and on. If I strum a C chord I’m fine but moving my index and pinky was causing a slight shift of my ring finger.
Today is my day to check guitar humidifiers so I got out my calipers and measured the nut on each guitar. My Taylor has the narrowest nut @ 1.6″ while my Yamaha A3M almost 1.7″, my Yamaha 12 string is 1.8″ and my classical is just over 2″. Looks like the A3M is going to be my fingerstyle guitar.
One solution you might look at is getting a 12 string and remove the octave strings. Sweetwater Sound has entry level 12 strings starting @ $219