I have often thought about having a shorter scale guitar built, but with the intent of tuning it up a whole step - even talked with Steve Kinnaird about it, and he was more than willing to take it on. Another good choice would be Rebecca Urlacher, who has built a number of tenor guitars and offers the option of building a 6 string on that body. That may be a smaller body than you want, though.
Have you tried tuning down and capoing up? You may have to try some heavier gauge strings to get more string tension, but that would be a far easier and cheaper solution.
Good luck!
Stan
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