Switching from Nylon Strings to Steel

For the folks who learned guitar on a classical or flamenco guitar, here is
a tip on how to obtain a wide necked guitar strung with steel strings.
Classical guitars are strung with nylon strings. But what if this kind of guitarist
decides to branch out and use steel strings? If they shop for a steel stringed
guitar, they run into the problem that necks on steel stringed guitars are narrow
compared to the classical guitar neck. That's a problem. The guitarist is faced
with either switching entirely to the narrow neck from the wide neck classical
guitars, or learning both necks, which is difficult to impossible and ill advised.

So the classical guitarist wants steel strings with a wide neck. The best way
to go with that is the Takamine F-312s, which is out of production. It's not
cheap either, but well worth the price. Actually, once a person owns this
guitar, it's unlikely that they would ever sell it. You can't go wrong with that
guitar and well worth the effort to shop around for it, including using eBay.
It's essentially a classical guitar made for steel strings. But what if you want
a big bodied guitar or even an electric guitar with a wide neck?
They don't make 'em.

Or do they? I experimented by stringing only 6 strings on an old, cheap
Guild 12 string guitar. It panned out to be a successful procedure yielding
a wide neck guitar with steel strings, and 2 frets above the body more than
a classical guitar. On this particular guitar, the tuning keys were rather
cheap, so I removed them and installed 6 Martin tuning keys. This slight
modification can also be done on electric guitars.