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Here's a pickie of my travel guitar that I made.......

Here's the back of it.

...........and here's the head, or rather the headless or, erm , not the head........

Just take a full size guitar and leave the wife at home if ya wanna save space!

I've had loads of travel guitars, still got a couple but........ if they're full or 3/4 scale they won't go in the case and if they're half scale they're crap and you can't play em right.
It has to be full scale.
This little pewk yellow beauty is full scale.

Here's the neck..... it's a Hofner neck I had from Music Ground , Leeds some years back and cut the head off.

Nice!

It actually plays a dream, lovely neck, fat frets. The body is Honduras mahogany, lightweight which machined superbly.
I used a cheap clear acrylic lacquer first which left a white fog on the finish so I then decided to paint it pewk yellow being as I had a couple of cans in the shed.
Gibbo type bridge, strat P/U. No volume control, jack socket on bottom edge. The strings go round the bottom of the body on a stainless steel semi-tube wrapped around a mahogany turned and shaped diameter piece. That should make for good sustain.
It's a bit awkward to play sitting down so I fitted a strap . Sometimes also the string ends dig in your belly which can make you yowk so I may well fit a cover.
It's big beauty is that it's short enough to go in your bag/case, it's lightweight and best of all, it's full scale.

I took it to the Hankies last night and after them lot all stopped laughing it sounded great.
Roger Bayliss videoed it on his phone and when he gets up ( 4 PM 'ish) he said he'll send it me so you should be able to see and hear it in action.