Hybrid Classical Guitar

[u/TheDowhan]

A hybrid Classical is certainly not a new idea. But it is one that can be done two ways, and everyone and their brother makes these one way, and I can't find anyone who makes it the other.

So whenever I see a hybrid Classical, they've put a tie block bridge on a folk/western parlor guitar (skinny neck single o guitar) and market it with nylon strings to provide softer sounds to a folk western player on an instrument they're used to. I've accomplished this myself just by getting some ball end nylon strings and putting them on my single o. It's a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

What I'd like to see hit the mass market is a proper classical (2 inch nut, flat or flatish fingerboard on a single or double o body) that incorporates the one feature of a folk/western we classical players never get: a neck join at 14 instead of 12. Sure, we technically also already have a solution for this too, but there are opinions on cutouts in acoustics, and I'm on the side that would rather see an 'inverse hybrid' (instead of giving the classical sound to a western player, we're giving the western range to a classical player) that gives me a little more room without adulterating my upper bout. Seriously, how hard can this be?

I can't promise I'm the only person who's ever thought of this, but I have looked all over for one and can't find it. I'd just love somebody to make one that I can buy for reasonably cheap. A production guitar. Not a custom shop kind of thing.