I'm a guitar picker. I have so many guitars I won't count them. I play electric guitar and acoustics. Once or twice a year I head to Mexico and wish I had a guitar with me. My daughter packed a uke last year and I realized I needed a six string uke. The Ibanez EWP14 is appealing to me - steel strings, cutaway, looks good. I have read several reports that the neck is too narrow. I played a Cordoba CE and it was nice but not steel string and it was a lot more expensive. So I'm here to find out if anyone has on opinion on the Ibanez vs the Cordoba?
The question that arises from reading this is, do you need a "6-string uke" at all?
By the way, a "6 string uke" in the traditional sense is not 6-strings like a guitar, but with some of the strings double-coursed, but still played like a 4-string (kinda like a 12-string guitar).
What you're looking for is a "guitalele" or "guilele", which is a shortscaled guitar tuned up to ADGCEA.
You can emulate that on a guitar by just putting a capo at the 5th fret of a regular guitar.
A steel string version of this isn't really a widely used instrument - Ibanez may be one of the few that do.
The rest would be nylon strings, made by companies like Cordoba, Aria, Yamaha and Oscar Schmidt.
Otherwise, I think a short-scaled travel guitar is probably a better investment.
Plenty of those around made by Taylor, Cort, Yamaha, Anuenue, etc.
For any instrument designed to take steel strings, ensure it has a truss rod.
There are some cheapo steel string mini guitars out there that don't.