The Lil Bastard D-Lux Short Scale/Lap-steel/Travel Guitar

 

2 or 3 of the "basic" version of the "Lil Bastard" in stock, and I had a few more of these cool little boxes lying around, so I thought to myself, "self, why dontcha' make one with a standard single-coil guitar pickup and add a tone control?" So I did. 

It's a bit louder than the ones with the more rustic pickup, and has a little more sonic versatility with the tone knob. The magnetic single-coil and under-the-lid piezo each have their individual volume controls.

These little guys work best either tuned UP to "G" (or even "A") standard, or even better in an open tuning, due to super-short-scale guitars being so finicky about intonation. 

Also,  I just discovered if you string it up with a little heavier strings, these make AWESOME CBG LAPSTEELS, and look cool doing it!!!