Converting a travel guitar into an electric lap steel

[catawompus]

I'm going to be retired next week, so my colleagues gave me a travel guitar as a good bye present:

http://www.washburn.com/products/acoustics/RO10.html

Since I have absolutely no use for a travel guitar and a lot of free time on my hands I was thinking to have it converted into a lap steel to learn to play decent slide guitar. what kind of pickup and output jack would you guys recommend me? I was thinking of buying the hardware myself and have a qualified guitar tech install it on the guitar. Thanks for your help.

[guitar_ed]

Hi,

I would suggest not doing this. It does not look like it can handle the stress of regular strings, never mind the stress of raising the nut.

edg

[catawompus]

Thanks Ed, the action is already relatively high, strings are D'Addario 10 - 47, so I don't think I'd have to change much in the action...